Amadeo wrote:classthe_king wrote:No, Rock Bottom is well put together. That's just random multi's going all over the place with no central theme.
No, it's all got a central theme: how he's pissed off at life.
I'm going for broke, gambling and playing for keeps
Everyday in the streets, scrambling and paying for cheep
Praying for sleep
Dreaming with a watering mouth
Wishing for a better life for my daughter and spouse
In this slaughtering house, caught up in bouts
With the root of all evil
I've seen it turn beautiful people crude and deceitful
And make them do shit illegal
For these Grant's and Jackson's
These transactions explain a man's actions
But in the mist of this insanity, I found my Christianity
Through God and there's a wish he granted me
He showed me how to cope with the stress
And hope for the best, instead of mope and depressed
Always groping a mess, of flying over the nest
To selling dope with the rest
I quit smoking cess to open my chest
He begins by saying he has no money to support Kim and Hailie and his life sucks. Then he talks about how evil money is anyway (those themes are connected), and how it corrupts people. Then he talks about how God is helping him through his depression and preventing him from becoming another drug dealing hustler on the streets. It has a lot of parallels with Rock Bottom actually, because on that song he also talks about not wanting to become one of those "gloomy lunatics who walk around depressed and smoke a pound of sess a day."
Yeah, there's nothing random about that. It definitely has a theme
