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 * "Do Better" by Say Anything**

Life is not a spark in space, An episode of Will and Grace Controversial yet mundane. Debrah's messing with your brain.

life isn't something that you should marvel at for a moment- comparison of life to a spark it isn't full of problems that are always the same- allusion to the TV show Will and Grace the actress is fooling you to believe this is how life is- allusion and play on words the actress' name

Even Scientologists Know there's more to all of this. You search the ruins for trap doors. Wonder what you're put here for. Simple as a hint of gas Climbing nostrils as you pass, Making Harvard graduates Feel childish when they laugh at it.

you should not constantly look for your purpose in life <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">metaphor of gas to the fun of life itself <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">personification of gas <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">everyone should learn to live and laugh, even the most intelligent of us all

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Climb the rungs to kingdom come. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sour Patch to acid tongue. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Are you opposed to having fun? <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You clench the world between your buns.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">comparing the struggle of life to a kingdom <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">drug reference to acid meaning that if this is what you do for fun, then you're excluding yourself from all the harmless, better things in life

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chorus <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!) <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">simply put, you could always do better than what you are doing now <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">always strive to go further in life <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">repetition

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Your life is always the post of something else. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where is the present in the way that you present yourself? <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's disgusting how little that you try: <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The existential equivalent of pink eye.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">you always base your decisions off of other things <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">what good are you doing for others and yourself by imitating others?- play on words <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">stating that you are no better than an infection- metaphor of your inactive life to the infection pink eye

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Drink alone and watch TV. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're expecting harmonies <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To tap your tune with silver spoons, <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The anthem of impending doom.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">you just sit around and wait for something to happen instead of doing something about it yourself <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">personification of harmonies <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> compares your life to someone who has been fed with a "silver spoon" which brings you nothin g good

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Guiding Satan's steady hand. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Forcing Beatles to disband. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's ego freaks and drama queens <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The young at heart know what I mean.

by doing this, you're only allowing Satan into your life he's stating that it's usually the conceited that are the this way and that they are still immature even if they are adults

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chorus-

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Better than that <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're a fraud <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thank God and learn to keep your shirt on.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">refrain you're not showing your true self be grateful and learn to be kept to yourself at times

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could be the greatest man in the world <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'd burn so brightly <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'd burn so brightly in the dark <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'd burn so brightly <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'd burn so <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'd burn so

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">refrain <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">if only you did do better than you would shine and be an example of how to live a life

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chorus

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Better than that <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're a fraud <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thank God and learn to keep your shirt on. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!) <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could do better <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!) <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We could do better We could do better We could be the greatest band in the world (woah!)

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">in the last two lines, he is stating that even his band and he are guilty of this, and that no matter what you should continue to try to be better

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "Where is the present in the way you present yourself?" To me, this quote is the most memorable throughout the entire song. It really makes me think about the way I do present myself and what comes of it. I think that this was the writers goal. He really grabbed my attention, and I'm sure many others as well. He wants to you to think about why you act the way you do and how you benefit from it. All of the previous and following lyrics help support this idea. This song depicts carpe diem because Say Anything is telling everyone that they can do better in their lives and makes the best out of every situation, no matter how poorly or well they are already doing. Although, I do agree that we should not always focus on knowing what our purpose in life is, I believe it is important to find out what your purpose is. It is an essential part of life to get what is needed to be done, done. Everyone in life relies on others. I don't think there is a single person who can does anything in their lives without thinking of someone else actions first. So the reality that your life can't always be the post of something else is unattainable. Yet, it is a great challenge to oneself to not base their actions or decisions on another person. This song is a motivational song to get you more active in your own life than you already are. Say Anything just wants you to know, that if you think you're doing your best, you can definitely do better.

Sources: "Say Anything Lyrics- Do Better." AZ Lyrics. Web. 25 Sept. 2011. <http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sayanything/dobetter.html>