User:A Generic Reality/themes

just throwing something together based on 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 "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"