Madd world.....by gary jules?

what does this song mean to you like what do u think it means?








All around me are familiar faces


Worn out places, worn out faces


Bright and early for their daily races


Going nowhere, going nowhere


Their tears are filling up their glasses


No expression, no expression


Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow


No tomorrow, no tomorrow





And I find it kinda funny


I find it kinda sad


The dreams in which I'm dying


Are the best I've ever had


I find it hard to tell you


I find it hard to take


When people run in circles


It's a very, very mad world mad world





Children waiting for the day they feel good


Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday


Made to feel the way that every child should


Sit and listen, sit and listen


Went to school and I was very nervous


No one knew me, no one knew me


Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson


Look right through me, look right through me





And I find it kinda funny


I find it kinda sad


The dreams in which I'm dying


Are the best I've ever had


I find it hard to tell you


I find it hard to take


When people run in circles


It's a very, very mad world ... world


Enlarge your world


Mad world

Madd world.....by gary jules?
I like this song a lot. It reminds me of Donnie Darko too. It gives me an eerily creepy but calm feeling although it's about how the more things change, the more things stay the same. We are still intolerant and destructive-- the world has essentially gone mad. We've learned nothing. I think the protagonist is a sentient human being becoming anesthetized and eventually overlooked. I like to listen to this song in the dark. I grew up with the Tears for Fears version but I prefer Jules'.
Reply:This song is about someone thinking about committing suicide. S/he is sick of this 'mad world' because s/he doesn't understand other people and/or they don't understand her. The two lines 'no tomorrow' and 'the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had' show it is about suicide. Tears For Fears were influenced by Primal Scream Therapy, anyone interested should look up Janov's theories.
Reply:Tear for Fears (who wrote the song) were believers in Primal Therapy, a form of therapy involving re-experiencing traumas and expressing long-buried painful feelings to achieve permanent resolution of neurotic symptoms.


They also thought that having a bad dream would have the opposite meaning in real life, hence the line"The dreams in which I'm dying


Are the best I've ever had" from the chorus





As the lyric in the verses recalls a lot of childhood memories this may be their way of resolving some of their issues.
Reply:"This song is about how the world has changed because of racism and the lack of tolerance - it's wanting a change from the world we have now. (thanks, Mark - Boston, MA)"





this is from songfacts.net





Tears for fears did the original...
Reply:being depressed and wanting to die. So sick of living, and bored with life that the thought of dying is the only thing that gets you going or turns you on, although not in a sexual sense.





i prefer the Tears For Fears version personally though.
Reply:the 1st CHORUS is how everyone gets up early to go to work and how they look so bored and he feels Depressed just looking at them.-The chorus means that he thinks it is ironic that the most exitng thing that goes on in his life are his dreams. And that the way people run around all the time is crazy-The 2nd Verse talks about how innocent kids are and how tied down they are by adults and how they have to listent to others and how he as a kid wanted attention and felt ignore a little-THATS IT!