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I fucking hate Simple Plan. I know, I know. This might sound
like something I wrote last May, but
hear me out. So I was watching Conan the other night, when they kept playing
this one song over and over again. Wondering what it was, I looked for the song
online, and downloaded it. What I heard was the biggest piece of shit ever.
Upon first listen, it didn’t sound half bad. Sure, it was a contrived beat, but
it was somewhat catchy. But then I picked up on some of the lyrics. Almost in
disbelief, I wanted to know the lyrics to the song, and they are as follows:
“Welcome to My Life,” Simple Plan
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place,
Like some how you just don’t belong,
And no one understands you?
Do you ever want to run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud,
That no one hears you screaming?
No, you don’t know what it’s like,
When nothing feels alright,
You don’t know what it’s like,
To be like me!
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
And no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
Do you want to be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more,
Before your life is over?
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies,
While deep inside you’re bleeding?
No you don’t know what it’s like,
When nothing feels alright,
You don’t know what it’s like,
To be like me!
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
And no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
No one ever lies straight to your face!
No one ever stabs you in the back!
You might think I’m happy,
But I’m not gonna be okay!
Everybody always gave you what you wanted!
You never had to work, it was always there!
You don’t know what it’s like (what it’s like)…
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
When no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
When no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life!
The song doesn’t start off bad enough. Granted, the lyrics are cliché and could’ve been written by a two-year-old, but it’s like that with a lot of songs nowadays. But then Simple Plan grows the balls to claim that these things only happen to them and nobody else. “You don’t know what its like to be me!” What the fuck? Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t most everyone feel upset, hurt, lost, left out in the dark, and/or pushed around from time to time? Just because a Simple Plan might cry about it more because they have sandy vaginas doesn’t mean that other people magically don’t ever feel pain.
“You might think I’m happy, but I’m not gonna be ok!” Like hell you aren’t. Not with that whining attitude. “No one ever lies straight to your face! No one ever stabs you in the back!” Seriously, who has this not happened to? But because you’re “speaking for a generation,” you can get away with it. Twelve year olds will eat that shit up for breakfast, and they’ll all be listening to while waiting for the school bus in the morning.
It’s bad enough that Simple Plan may possibly feel this way, but if they’re writing this simply to be an anthem for young kids, it’s sending the kids perhaps the worst message in the world, “only my life matters, and I’m allowed to care only about myself because your life rules and mine blows big-time, and therefore I should be pitied.” Newsflash twelve year old: don’t listen to Simple Plan. And if you do, don’t pay attention to the lyrics because they’ll turn you into some depressed zombie. But you’ll still buy the album because, “it speaks to you,” and they’ll still get rich off of you.
“Welcome to My Life,” Simple Plan
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place,
Like some how you just don’t belong,
And no one understands you?
Do you ever want to run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud,
That no one hears you screaming?
No, you don’t know what it’s like,
When nothing feels alright,
You don’t know what it’s like,
To be like me!
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
And no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
Do you want to be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more,
Before your life is over?
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies,
While deep inside you’re bleeding?
No you don’t know what it’s like,
When nothing feels alright,
You don’t know what it’s like,
To be like me!
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
And no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
No one ever lies straight to your face!
No one ever stabs you in the back!
You might think I’m happy,
But I’m not gonna be okay!
Everybody always gave you what you wanted!
You never had to work, it was always there!
You don’t know what it’s like (what it’s like)…
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
When no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
To be hurt, to feel lost,
To be left out in the dark,
To be kicked, when you’re down,
To feel like you’ve been pushed around,
To be on the edge of breaking down,
When no one’s there to save you,
No you don’t know what it’s like,
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life!
The song doesn’t start off bad enough. Granted, the lyrics are cliché and could’ve been written by a two-year-old, but it’s like that with a lot of songs nowadays. But then Simple Plan grows the balls to claim that these things only happen to them and nobody else. “You don’t know what its like to be me!” What the fuck? Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t most everyone feel upset, hurt, lost, left out in the dark, and/or pushed around from time to time? Just because a Simple Plan might cry about it more because they have sandy vaginas doesn’t mean that other people magically don’t ever feel pain.
“You might think I’m happy, but I’m not gonna be ok!” Like hell you aren’t. Not with that whining attitude. “No one ever lies straight to your face! No one ever stabs you in the back!” Seriously, who has this not happened to? But because you’re “speaking for a generation,” you can get away with it. Twelve year olds will eat that shit up for breakfast, and they’ll all be listening to while waiting for the school bus in the morning.
It’s bad enough that Simple Plan may possibly feel this way, but if they’re writing this simply to be an anthem for young kids, it’s sending the kids perhaps the worst message in the world, “only my life matters, and I’m allowed to care only about myself because your life rules and mine blows big-time, and therefore I should be pitied.” Newsflash twelve year old: don’t listen to Simple Plan. And if you do, don’t pay attention to the lyrics because they’ll turn you into some depressed zombie. But you’ll still buy the album because, “it speaks to you,” and they’ll still get rich off of you.