View source for User:A Generic Reality/themes

just throwing something together based on [http://tmbw.net/wiki/Category:Song_Themes TMBW's song themes]... feel free to help out :)

also inspired by [[Bills]]

== Animals ==
* [[High as a Kite]] - ''"Flying like a beautiful bird"''

== Being above or high up ==
* [[High as a Kite]]
* [[High Up Above]]

== Body parts ==
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"The future's so bright I gotta poke my eyes out"''
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"No one to hold my hand"'', ''"My eyes are like far away spaceships"''
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"My heart pumps Kool-Aid"''

== Bugs, insects, arachnids ==
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"And the spider is sucking out my life"''
* [[The Spider]]

== Children ==
* [[High as a Kite]] - ''"So let me play this game for children and vanish into the atmosphere"''

== Drinks ==
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"Sellin' lemonade by the side of the road"''
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"My heart pumps Kool-Aid"'' 

== Drug & alcohol use ==
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"I never learned to roll a joint"''
* [[Dope Nose]]
* [[Do You Wanna Get High?]]
* [[Hash Pipe]]
* [[Piece of Cake]] - ''"Let's do hard drugs"''
* [[Say It Ain't So]] - alcohol

== Education & learning ==
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"Higher education is the key to escape"'' 
* [[The Rules of Life]]
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I used like to learn how to speak in Chinese"''

== Ennui ==
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I don't care much about anything"'', ''"I'm lackin' the passion to do anything"''

== Family ==
* [[Say It Ain't So]] - about Rivers' relationship with his father and stepfather

== Games ==
* [[High as a Kite]] - ''"So let me play this game for children and vanish into the atmosphere"''

== Girls ==
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"This girl I like, I'm talking 'bout this girl I like"'' 
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I used to chat up the girls out in the club"''

== Language ==
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I used like to learn how to speak in Chinese"'', ''"'O-Kudasai' means 'Baby, would ya please'"'' (which is Japanese)
=== Use of languages other than English ===
In addition to the [[Scott & Rivers]] project, which is primarily in Japanese:
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"Hasta luego"'' is Spanish for "See you later"
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"Je ne sais pas"'' is French for "I don't know"
* [[Meri Kuri]] - Cover of a Japanese song, title is short for "Merry Christmas"
* [[Rest in Peace]] - ''"Pitonnez toi"'' is French for "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piton#Verb piton] yourself"

== Loneliness ==
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"
* [[Lonely Girl]]


== Music ==
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I'm happy to sing"''
=== References to other musicians ===
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"Walk between the raindrops, 'tween the raindrops, singing along to Queen"'' 

== Places ==
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"Listen to reason or we'll get cast out of Egypt, la-dee-da"''

== Space ==
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"My eyes are like far away spaceships"'' 


== Sports & recreation ==
* [[High as a Kite]] - ''"I think I'm going parasailing"''
* [[Run Over by a Truck]] - ''"I used to play B-ball down at the park"''
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"I don't know karate or kung fu, but I'm gonna make it in this world"'' 

== Swear words ==
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - ''"I'm an ugly motherfucker but I work hella harder"'' and ''"Don't step to me, bitch"''
* [[My Brain]] (SS2K) - ''"I tell the world to fuck itself"''

== Time, clocks ==
* [[Living in L.A.]] - ''"And now I hear the ticking of a clock"''

== Vehicles & transportation ==
* [[Run Over by a Truck]]
=== Honorable mentions ===
* [[Can't Knock the Hustle]] - The entire music video takes place in a car

== Violence & death ==
* [[Zombie Bastards]] - ''"Die, die you zombie bastards"''

== Weather ==
* [[High as a Kite]] - ''"I can fly up to the stratosphere, high above the cirrus clouds where I am one with the universe"''