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Idlewild
These Wooden Ideas
100 Broken Windows
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com
Chords used:
B: 799877
A#m: 688666
G#m: 466444
F#: 244322
C#: x4666x
D#: x6888x
B A#m G#m
It’s a better way to feel
Don’t be real, be post modern
B A#m G#m
(it’s not that one dimensional, it’s not the only thought)
B A#m G#m
It’s a better way to feel
When you’re not real, you’re post modern
B A#m G#m
(it’s not that one dimensional, it’s not the only thought)
B
B G#m
I stopped and waited for progress
A#m B G#m
I stopped and waited for progress
I stopped and waited
C# D# G#m
But I’m not willing to accept it all
B F# C# G#m
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
B F# C#
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
It’s the best way to feel
Don’t be real, it’s post modern
(it’s not that one dimensional, it’s not the only thought)
It’s a better way to feel
When you’re not real, you’re post modern
(it’s not that one dimensional, it’s not the only thought)
You can’t keep waiting for progress
You can’t keep waiting for progress
You can’t keep waiting
And I’m not willing to accept it all
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
G#m B F# C#
I bet you don’t know how to spell contradiction
G#m B F# C#
I bet you don’t know how to sell conviction
G#m B F# C#
I bet you don’t know how to spell contradiction
G#m B F# C#
I bet you don’t know how to sell conviction
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
This wooden idea is your method of repetition
This wooden idea is how you sell reduction
G#m B F# C#
How you sell, how you sell reduction
G#m B F# C#
How you sell, how you sell conviction
How you sell, how you sell reduction
How you sell, how you sell conviction
G#m
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Chris Average |
#1 by Chris H... at Aug 22, 1974 at 11:09 PM EST |
| Yeah...i think it's slating the postmodernistic/humanistic myth of 'making progress', - the indoctrination of the modern man/woman; selling us hope of progress in a Baconian package - when really this ideal is just as flexible as the flux of nature(wooden) - with the minds that create it (new religion?). | |
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Aaron Wanna Be |
#2 by Aaron Howe at May 3, 1977 at 1:58 AM EST |
| Yeah Paradoxical, its totally about the failure of postmodern humanism. However, I can't help feeling that its really more to do the inversion of sexuality since the Second World War. The real question the song asks is: Why is it original to conform? And why are you such a jerk? By "you" I mean everyone, of course. | |
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Patrick Wanna Be |
#3 by Patrick Bastien at Jul 25, 1983 at 9:23 AM EST |
| This a very political and brilliant song. I agree with tannierock that conformity is at the center of these lyrics. This wooden idea (wood not being the strongest substance) is your method of repetition... Recapitulation of already expressed ideas? This wooden idea is how you sell reduction. Any questions? | |
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Marc Average |
#4 by Marc Costello at Sep 22, 1999 at 8:58 PM EST |
| I think people are complicating the song. I feel that its merely about how soulless modern society has become, yet how no one will accept to place life back into in the name of progress. It could also be about coping with extreme sadness. Perhaps the song's protagonist has lost his way with extreme emotion, and feels perhaps a postmodern way of thinking would be able to appease his emotions. It can obviously be seen that he is not fully convinved of this new way of thinking, and is still suffering from alot of inner conflict because of it. 1 | |
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