Song analysis: "All My Favorite Songs" by Weezer

Yes indeed, it's time for another self-indulgent song analysis! :D 

Here is the link to the lyrics on Genius. I don't know much about Weezer or the background of this song. But, the lyrics really resonate with me. 

I very much feel this. Almost all of my favorite songs are sad. Slow, sometimes, too. Example: On the Wing by Owl City is a song about a beautiful fantasy that isn’t real. Humans can’t fly, simply put, not without the aid of machinery, and as Adam admits in the song, the girl in the song is simply a decoy. Like everything else in the scene, she exists only in the dream. This is a sad song. 

Similarly, when upset we are most likely to act out around the people we know and love. Why? Because we’re comfortable around them. Our guard is down. But it sucks, because we end up hurting the people that we love the most. 

You know what feels good? Giving into impulses and desires. Eating a ton of junk food, blowing off responsibility. But everything that feels so good is bad, and so many things that are good for you do not feel good. 

When you know that something’s wrong with you but you don’t know what, it is the most frustrating thing in the world. 

I love talking to people and connecting with others. But, I’m also introverted. I get overwhelmed and then I don’t respond to messages for months, or even longer. Then, people get offended, and I lose them. You cannot keep everyone, but this still creates feelings of guilt for not maintaining my social connections as well as I should. 

I also like to space out when someone talks. That’s why I like being quiet in a conversation, especially if it’s about something I know nothing about. I’d rather think about something else. But I like being around others. 

I don’t feel guilty about wanting to be rich, but I fear being able to balance everything that I love. I don’t want to sacrifice the things I’m passionate about for it. And I’ve never fallen for someone who reciprocated long-term. And vice versa — the people who fall for me are never the one that I am searching for. 

Me too, man. Me too. 

My favorite part of the song — always gets me. I often take morning walks (on my off days from running), though this can apply to recovery runs as well. And that is exactly what I think about. Life, and how to find my way through hell. 

I often wish I could escape to another world, a better one than this, especially when I look up at the stars at night, thinking of flying away. But there are beautiful things here in this world that I need to experience and understand. 

The song ends with a melancholy note that hangs in the air before fading away. This is one of those songs where it's always super jarring when a radio announcer begins talking excitedly directly after it concludes. Nonetheless, Weezer has done an excellent job here describing that feeling that something is missing, that life could be better, but that you must keep moving forward anyway.