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Humanity's Playbill

from Happy Sounding Sad Songs by Johnny Citizen

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The first verse speaks to various things in "our world": A lover who can't keep her promises but also can't admit to not keeping them. "At the local megaplex by fools and drones" is a segue and is specifically about "The Passion of the Christ", a movie that was receiving a lot of attention at the time. The next verse continues airing grievances against both modern faith and modern ideals: "We are like the birds" is a sideways reference to the "consider the ravens" parable. The streets of heaven as "fool's gold" is mostly an inditement of those motivated not by love but by reward. The rest of the song is sung specifically at Jesus, with the "shouting over the din" unintentionally pairing with the line "I can't hear unless you shout above the noise" from "Don't Tell Me".

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from Happy Sounding Sad Songs, released November 1, 2007

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