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Interpretations:Renew My Subscription

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Lifelong Daydream? Did he die? (Well, if he keeps on taking all those "Magic Pills" he most certainly will...) Did the first section take place after the second?

Magic Pills...


-TitaniumHamster

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On the first pass, I think this is about anxiety, misery and alienation and how people deal with it. The narrator thinks he's a miserable freak show, and that he bellows in desperation, but without connection to anyone. After all, he is pouring out personal information in a letter to a magazine.

He's dealing with his mental discomfort with pharmaceuticals and by reading magazines looking for comfort, and feels a connection that isn't really there to someone in an article.

~Christina Miller, November 2005

I don't think the song is about anything other than the fun parallel that can be drawn between the phrases "one renews a subscription" and "one refills a prescription". This song has a sweet island beat and some gentle, pleasing variations in the melody. --Nehushtan 11:53, 10 Apr 2006 (CDT)

Haha, I really like this one. "refill my prescription to whatever that thing is that makes the carpet stop turning into snakes" I love it. I think it's about people that are dependant on something, whether it be pills or writing pathetic letters to a magazine or reading those letters.

And toying with the fact that "prescription" and "subscription" are terrific rhymes for each other. ~She Might Be Ruth


The narrator's obviously got some sort of problem. Like a lot of TMBG songs, however, we can't really narrow it down to one thing. And he's not motivated enough to do anything but just sit at home reading health magazines and taking his Prozac.

- J2



This song made me think about pornography and drugs. -Alice

I am reminded of Jonathan Coulton's wonderful song, I Feel Fantastic (see what I did there?). It's about a guy who needs something to get him through daily life, because otherwise he just can't handle it. Those "magic pills" just make him think his life is better. -WhatIsThatThing previously known as SonicFan

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