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I'm seeing the green house at the end of the block being swarmed by 7 year olds for a birthday party; the main narrator is the parent, noticing their house is filling up with kids, and there's no more cake.

Could this just be a funny little song about what it's like to run a child's birthday party? The weirdness of dozens of kids all the same age flooding in?

--Christina Miller, 14:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I thought the same thing. Possibly because Henry's voice is on the song and he might have been about 7 years old when it was written. --dogonfire

Prepare to have your mind's blown, hehehe. I take this as TMBG's subtle attempt to talk about America/USA's international economic policy. Think of the narrator as the American people, the 7's as immigrants/other countries, and the cake as a symbol of money/work. The basic moral stays the same, if you give out something for free someone is going to try to take advantage of it. Until you get wiser, or run out of "the cake". -Vespaholic


Ha, if you're going to get metaphorical on a kid's song, then you can say it's about anybody or any group wanting anything. -- DominEl

Does anyone think "Let them eat up all the cake." pays homage to Marie Antoinette, who was famous for saying "Let them eat cake."? -- JasonDeLima 01:13, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

So, I doubt it is, but I like to think Linnell wrote this about what he felt at Henry's 7th birthday party. In which case all I have to say to him is: "Just wait for seventeen." My friends and I were skilled at making the contents of the cupboards in our parents' houses disappear over the last couple of years. -- MichelleMaBelle

I guess your parents all kept cake in the cupboards, huh? ;] -CapitalQ / @ / 07:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, it was really my one friend's house, and his parents finally relenquished the cupboard full of baking supplies and snack food to us. We like Hot Pockets and making brownies. :) -MichelleMaBelle
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