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Interpretations:O, Do Not Forsake Me

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This song seems to me to not necessarily be about someone who is 1000 years old, but someone who has just turned (in his mind) over the hill and is worried that his younger friends will think he's old. [Random]

I'm with you, Random. I think it's just a(nother) TMBG "shaking a fist at aging" song.--RonAmoriM 02:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

This song strikes me as a personification of all the wisdom of the ancients beseeching the modern age not to forsake it, and decrying the young's forgotten "flower of speech", but simultaneously admitting that its own sonorous tone is in fact covering up a bunch of "misbegotten notions," i.e., that the wisdom of the past isn't always what it's cracked up to be, and we, the moderns, should judge things based on their merits, and not simply on the basis that they're "one thousand years old." -- Ironwolf

The style of singing here reminded me of the lines "all that year of chorus taught me Is out of style and long forgot" in How Can I Sing Like A Girl, which led me to think of a Spin-the-dial peformance line "outmoded form of singing, archaic and strange." -- TheBlunderbuss 17:27, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

never to return to earth, except in your bad dreams. cry.gif

IMO, it's about dead fads. This messed up song style is a dead fad in itself, and sometimes people use the expression "prehistoric" for dead fads which is similar to 1000 years old. Do not forsake me, duh duh duh, that's don't forget about all the dead fads.

I always just thought this was just a mockery of church sermons, hence the title. It might have a deeper meaning, but to me, it is much funnier as a parody.--Fasterthanyou 04:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I think it is a very interesting text. Except for being an obvious parody, the text has some interesting angles. The beginning is about how he is getting old and everyone else remains toublefree. I don't think "do not forsake me" is a referrence to god, since he is reffering it to his indolent friends. In the second paragraph, he seems rather cocky about being old. "One thousand years old, but what do you know?" In the third paragraph he talks about how others are just enjoying life while he is fighting for his. In the end, however, he comes to the conclusion, that he is not better. "One thousand years old, but what do I know?" In the end, they are all alike, and his friends will be old too some day.

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