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[brandice]

Here's one that's not really well known. (But I wish it was!) It's a beautiful song, with truly beautiful and meaningful lyrics.

Retrovertigo
(from Mr. Bungle's California Words and Music by Trevor Dunn)

Before you advertise
All the fame is implied
With no fortune unseen
Sell the rights
To your blight
Time-machine

While I'm dulled by excess
And a cynic at best
My art imitates crime
Paid for by
The allies
So invest

Now I'm finding truth is a ruin
Nauseous end that nobody is pursuing
Staring into glassy eyes
Mesmerized
There's a vintage thirst returning
But I'm sheltered by my channel-surfing
Every famine virtual
Retrovertigo

A tribute to false memories
With conviction
Cheap imitation
Is it fashion or disease?
Post-ironic
Remains a mouth to feed

Sell the rights
To your blight
And you'll eat

Now I'm finding truth is a ruin
Nauseous end that nobody is pursuing
Staring into glassy eyes
Mesmerized
See the vintage robot wearied
Then awakened by revision theories
Every famine virtual
Retrovertigo

[millertime]

thats umm.... i'm not sure. it uses a lot of words i dont even know... lol

[rejected]

I totally understood that, but the word I didn't understand was retrovergo, what's it mean? Very meaningful lyrics though.

[biscuitrat]

Vertigo is dizziness or nausea from dizziness, just so you know. Yay! It's an intelligent song!

[brandice]

Yay!

I think the fella who wrote the song made up the word. A sort of dizziness from thinking back... I wonder what came first, the title or the subject of the song... hmmm.

[iGuest]

This song is one of the deepest I know of. Very thought over yet again, not too much.
The reality is so there and I just don't know what to think about it. One of my favorites

-lovely

[iGuest]

One%20of%20the%20best%20songs%20ever!
My Favorite Song Lyrics

I love this song and it really evokes strong emotion for me. I can't understand why this never got airplay. This is one of the most straightforward of all Bungle songs. Seriously it should be in those top 50 songs of all time lists. To me this is everything a true rock ballad should be.

I'd like to see this performed on American Idol.

-Christine

[rickyRconti]

agreed

[Sk_CrEw]

Yo a friend of mine and I started a crew in Brest (France) and we both can rap but I aint no good at writting in english lol so if someone could contact me by mail or by msn if they are willing to write some lyrics for me. My e-mail is mayhem_225@hotmail.com Thanks

Edited by Sk_CrEw, 12 February 2008 - 08:46 PM.

[iGuest]

Mr. Bungle - Retrovertical interpretation
My Favorite Song Lyrics

Replying to brandice
I have read over these lyrics many times. Perhaps I'm trying to read into them too much, but I don't understand what this song is about. Is it a love song? A song of regret maybe? Or something completely different?

-reply by Just_me