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My Morning Jacket => The Music => Topic started by: daveD on Aug 19, 2004, 11:11 PM

Title: One In The Same
Post by: daveD on Aug 19, 2004, 11:11 PM
The correct phrase is "one AND the same". this bothers me. should it?
does the band know this, and they are just using poetic license?
am i being anal?
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: Xmas_Curtain on Aug 20, 2004, 03:52 AM
Yeah, think about it...it's quite a clever pun the way I see it.

"In" referring to the intangible that holds all this trivial bullshit (a joke, a job, a dream) -- that intangible being maybe life itself, or Jim's psyche -- and "the same" referring to the inherent pointlessness and eventual emptiness that everyone finds when we tally all this crap up... I've always found it the most depressing MMJ song ever.

Then again, I could be a loser philosophy student and Jim was just amusing himself!  :)
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 20, 2004, 09:50 AM
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Jim was just amusing himself!  :)
I think you've got it here ;)
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: TheMollusk on Aug 20, 2004, 05:16 PM
heh, you said anal
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 20, 2004, 07:56 PM
Quoteheh, you said anal
reminds you of you and your relatives I'm sure
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Aug 21, 2004, 07:35 AM
hey, don't feed the trolls
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 21, 2004, 09:50 AM
whoops sorry you're right--slipped off the wagon there ;)
Title: Re: One In The Same
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Aug 21, 2004, 10:20 AM
it's all good!