Interpretations:Fibber Island

Flans understands that kids love of fantasy, fibs and fantasy. Great lyrics and a brilliant melody. A stand out track that works for both child and adult. (Mr Tuck)

The song is obviously about imagination, and imagining your own little strange world in your head..

"to get to fibber island you just close your eyes start fibbing in your mind and see what you can find"

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This song reminds me of "The Big Rock Candy Mountain", only even... stranger. Someone on Amazon.com pointed out that it seems more like a spoof of off-the-wall kids' songs than an actual kids' song. I tend to agree. [Random]

Of course, how can you tell a really effective spoof from an extreme example? I think this is somewhat about small children's habit of lying forthrightly and ridiculously. --HearingAid

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TMBG seem to want to introduce to children the notion that imagination and lying are both intimately related things. 'Fiction is just beautiful lies,' as the saying goes. Though the Johns make no pretense of being overtly didactic in their children's fare, this song could be seen as instructing children on a constructive outlet for their predilection to 'fib': create a rich imaginary world.

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It's a fun song yay. It has no deeper meaning, I doubt it's a spoof, it's absolutely hilarious though. I really like the above interp though. ~AgentChronon

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