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Interpretations:Everything Right Is Wrong Again

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The Scene...or...so it seems to me. Car with an attached trailer crashes. The survivor is apparently floating upstream. I imagine there is some personifying going on. Evidence for this is presented with the line: 

"And nobody would stop to save her."

Or I could be wrong. As I've said before: 

"I'm not very smart."

I'm a bit lost on the dingy weasel, although it intrigues me, as any dingy weasel should. I'll leave the rest to the muses. -The Panda


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"The long, long trailer" is a reference to the 1954 Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz I love Lucy motion picture The Long, Long Trailer. Taking a honeymoon roadtrip, a cumbersome trailer creates plenty of slapstick problems for Lucy and Ricki, including one scene where the motor trailer, Lucy inside, becomes unhinged from the car, their dishes falling from the shelves, and the car continues away, hence the lines:


Just like in the long long trailer

All the dishes got broken and the car kept driving

And nobody would stop to save her

The "her" in question is Lucy.

-Texaspickle

*cracks his knuckles*

Let's try to give this one a thorough interpretation, hm? I believe it's about how accepted beliefs can change from time to time. "Again" means that at one point, whatever is being referred to was cool or accepted at one point, though it was radical or crazy at one point. However, now this trend has now fallen back to its former status. It's about how fads come and go.

In the second stanza, the narrator hopes that the fad is gone and doesn't want to be disturbed until it's gone. The weasel overcome with dinge, a dirty or shamed weasel, has felt the pain of being abused, but while time has past, he can't forget the pain of the past.

The song then moves into the fake ending, which represents the end of a trend (things become right). The next lines are describing the fads... from moves that aren't used seriously (say, for instance, disco) to the waltz becoming the popular dance. "Every five and dime spent gained and spent" is another way to say that people spend all of the money they make on these fads.

The fad then begins to fade. People are dying because of it and people are laughing in the face of death and pain where they should be screaming. The silent voice is the conscience of the people telling them that this isn't right. The last "and now this song is over now" means that the fad has ended and society has moved on.

-Ecks

Just listening to this song with my now adult ears, the following couplet stood out to me: Weasel overcome but not before the damage done The healing doesn't stop the feeling

Wow, what a pop-culturally dense juxtaposition from the 60s through 70s. Weasel overcome resonates with "We shall overcome", the 60's civil rights spiritual; "the damage done" evokes the famous Neil Young junkie song The Needle and the Damage Done, very popular mid 70's. I'm not sure if the healing calls in Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing (1972), but I feel like "stop the feeling" comes from that "ooga-ooga-ooga-chacka" Hooked on a Feeling song from the late 70's.

Bear with me here: Every thing right is wrong again: civil rights is right, and is followed by thw wrong of inner cities decaying by drug use. Chart-topping soulful R&B is right, and is followed by the wrong, craptastic yet still chart-topping, scandinavian pop.

Keith

I think this song is mainly about a relationship falling apart...Almost every line shows how him and this girl are fighting all the time. "And now the song is over now" is just him saying the relationship is over, or should be.

"Wake me when it's over, touch my face, tell me every word has been erased"...Can't just about everyone relate to this line? It's so sweet and sad...I don't think the song is as analytical as some people are making it out to be.

"You're a weasel overcome with dinge"... Ouch! Them's fighting words, John.

"The healing doesn't stop the feeling"... They can try to patch things up but it really won't stop that gut feeling that maybe this relationship won't work out.

Sure there's lots of word play and obscure pop culture references and the typical TMBG conundrums...But I think the main essence of this song is that a relationship is ending. A lot of their songs are like this.

-Jordan

It might be about a nasty hurricane-think about it. The title phrase might mean the local area is in a state of deep disarray where there was order: it's not just messed up, EVERYTHING is wrong, again an echo to the familiar phrase "the worst storm in so-and-so years". Weasel overcome with dinge means they're hiding in their homes-a dirty, upset weasel would flee to their burrow, as also seen in the "Wake me when it's over, touch my face.." part. The healing not stopping the feeling means despite all the restoration & support groups, the people are depressed. Also "the car kept driving" means that the wind's carrying large belongings like cars high in the air. The gained-and-spent line means after the storm, poverty strikes. The false move-waltz thing might signify how it complicates matters, and the false part might mean that most actions seem futile. I'm not saying it's the intended meaning-it just works, kinda like those crazy Pink Floyd syncs.

I'm only gonna comment on the title and line of the song, "Everything that's right is wrong again." Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the line is intended to be an inversion of the phrase "Everything that (was/is) wrong is right again." That just seems like the way the line SHOULD be, and when I thought about it possibly being intended that it sounds like that, I began applying it to certain life situations. Recently, there were things in my life going wrong that I righted, or so I thought. And I began to regret my decision and reversed it. Even though I was completely right in making the choice I did, I felt wrong, and altered my life for the worst after fixing it. Everything that WAS right was wrong again. And the inversion is significant because it felt right to me but in the long run it was wrong, and since it was wrong in the first place before I fixed it, it was wrong again. I know, it makes very little sense, and I'm having a lot of trouble conveying my meaning. Maybe some of you got it.

-Penumbra

Kind of a stretch, but it might be about how pretty much everything in science will be considered false in the future as it has been happening for century.

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