Interpretations:Let's Get This Over With

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Trump Exhaustion

While the lyrics never mention President Trump by name, I think it's safe to assume that this song was written with him in mind. Trump's apparent need to be a headline every day means he is always moving from controversy to controversy, hence, "The drumbeat never changes tempo", and because it seems like it's always something painful or embarrassing that he's doing, "it crushes you as it gets louder". The relentless mockery of the presidential Twitter feed is referenced by the "page of strange gibberish" and "spelling mistakes" (i.e., the unforgettable "covfefe"^[1]). Trump's penchant for sexual misconduct is referenced by "groping in the dark". Even the bizarre Trump handshake^[2] gets referenced ("Awkward pause / Hand extended waiting for a shake"). Linnell's narrator is very frustrated at all this, but he knows "you still have a job to do / Even when you don't know what it is"--i.e., don't let it get you down, because "All the while the planet circles 'round the sun". Daily life goes on, and in a few years, we'll have a chance to put "a final punctuation mark" on the whole fiasco. Let's get this over with, indeed. --MisterMe (talk) 09:23, 18 January 2018 (EST)

Perfect exposition! It's worth noting that the album was released at the exact year mark of the Trump administration... the planet has made one circle around the sun. --Nehushtan (talk) 02:48, 20 January 2018 (EST)

Thanks--as I was typing it out, I realized I was most likely shoehorning convenient Trumpian factoids into oblique lyrics of pop music that may or may not have anything to do with him. But I guess that's the point of this page: you can read just about whatever you want into these kinds of lyrics. --MisterMe (talk) 08:45, 19 February 2018 (EST)

Strangely Comforting View of Life's Banality

To me this lyric is about soldiering on with life after becoming disillusioned, having gained a calmer and more objective view of things. Though it seems dark, I find it comforting because it teaches us to be chill about this whole thing called life.

At the point when we finally stop expecting any great breakthrough or revelation in our life, we can realize that life is simply meant to be lived day by day. There are no more big surprises ("everybody knows how this goes"). A greater meaning of life is beyond our ability to discover; life is "a page of strange gibberish". But we can "get over it" and not let anything bother us too much, and we're content to do our part until our time on the stage of life is through. Even if we don't have any great idea of our life's purpose, somehow we instinctively keep on living and doing what we can ("your job knows what it is").

Also, LOL at the line from "Closing Time" inserted at the end. --Hockpa2e (talk) 09:50, 26 January 2018 (EST)

About kids playing Hangman & the game's hypothetical executioner

I'm coming back to this and further expanding on it soon, but I had to get this out there before any sort of video for this song was made, just in case. But hear me out:

"Let's Get This Over With" is simultaneously about two kids playing Hangman AND about an executioner forced to hang people.

[WORK IN PROGRESS EXPLANATION; CHECK BACK IN A DAY OR FEW FOR THE FULL REASONING; JUST HAD TO GET IT OUT THERE]

Paintspotinfez (talk) 17:03, 20 February 2018 (EST)

Finish the

I don't know you guys this is obviously about trying to get your dang thesis/diss done, right? Existing in the horrible purgatory of stress... especially when you're watching your cohort (and their baked clams) move on, and you're still trapped. —CatastropheelingGood