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Lyrics

Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Young girls dying to be on TV They wont stop 'til they've reached their dreams

Diet pills, surgery Photoshop pictures in magazines Telling them how they should be It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy? Is anybody gonna save me? Can anybody tell me what's going on? Tell me what's going on If you open your eyes You'll see that something is wrong

I guess things are not how they used to be There's no more normal families Parents act like enemies Making kids feel like it's world war III

No one cares, no one's there I guess we're all just too damn busy Money's our first priority It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy? Is anybody gonna save me? Can anybody tell me what's going on? Tell me what's going on If you open your eyes You'll see that something is wrong

Is everybody going crazy? Is everybody going crazy?

Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Rich guys driving big SUV's While kids are starving in the streets No one cares No one likes to share I guess life's unfair

Is everybody going crazy? Is anybody gonna save me? Can anybody tell me what's going on Tell me what's going on If you open your eyes You'll see that something

something is wrong Is everybody going Crazy? Can anybody tell me what's going on Tell me what's going on If you open your eyes You'll see that something is wrong

Song analysis

Simple Plan is a Canadian pop rock or punk band formed in 1999. Up to date, the band has released four albums but in this analysis we're only going to talk about their second album called 'Still Not Getting Any…'. This album was released in 2004 and its fourth single was the song 'Crazy'. To know more about the band you can visit http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Plan or their official web page http://www.simpleplan.com/index.php.

Crazy is one of the most realistic and sincere songs I have ever heard. To start with, the rhythm that both the lead guitar and the drums create express the angry and energetic disagreement that the singer feels towards the attitude that our society has. However, at no point in the song do the musical instruments win over the artist's voice. Throughout the whole song, the singer sings loudly and with clarity to assure that the lyrics are understood and that the message behind them is being passed on.

Why did I chose the song? I chose the song both for the lyrics and for the music. The lyrics are deep and powerful and the instruments maintain the rhythm. Being a pop punk song, it has a chorus that is repeated several times and that gives you a summary of the main meaning of the song and that tries to pass on to you what the singer feels and thinks. The song has nine stanzas in these the chorus which is repeated four times. The language used during the whole song is easy and direct probably so that everyone can understand it; even poor people without education who would probably feel honored by it.

What does the song talk about? The first two stanzas of the song describe in a very strong and shocking way what our society is like nowadays. They talk about the influence and pressure that communities put on a lot of people by showing them idealized figures and trying to convince them that they should be like them in order to succeed in life. As expected, these ideals are impossible to reach for which people will end up failing and blaming themselves for it. The beginning of the song talks about what young girls are shown on TV and in magazines and what they do, the pills that the take and the surgeries that they put themselves through, just to be like the people the media portrays. However, the singer disagrees with society and expresses what is happening as something unintelligible and pointless because he considers that people should be themselves and believe that they're beautiful just the way they are. He doesn't understand why people suffer to become something that they're not and how society has become so easily influenced and self conscious.

The chorus of the song is full of rhetorical questions that ask how things got so bad and why can't people see that their actions are ruining so many lives. It expresses the actual thoughts of the band and it tries to open people's eyes towards the world that they're living in. The singer wants the listeners to hear the chorus and for this one to make them meditate about what they're doing and for them realize that all the pain and suffering in the world was created and can only be destroyed by us. In other words, it's our choice to make a better world and for us to be happy. The chorus is repeated several times to emphasize the whole purpose of the song and for it to have a bigger effect.

After the chorus, the song continues to talk about the problems our society has. They start by saying that families are no longer what they used to be, a group of people with an invincible love bond, but that instead they're a source of problems and hate. Later, they show everyone's lack of concern and preoccupation by saying that nobody cares about what is happening in the world because we're all busy thinking about other things of smaller importance. What is more, the lyrics also make a clear reference to our high levels of ambition by saying that we're obsessed about money as if it were the most important thing to us. Moreover, this idea is continued on the following stanza by talking about the social differences we've created. In this stanza we're given a clear image of high class people wearing classy clothes and driving big, expensive cars while in other parts of the globe we can see children dying everyday due to famine. The singer can't understand how he can see what's happening but rich people can't or just decide to ignore it as if it weren't of importance.

The track ends with a sort of conclusion that the band arrives to in which they express that the final problem of all the bad things in this world is our ignorance and stinginess. They also realize that we're not all born in the same place and with the same opportunities for which life is unfair. If we all had and equal amount of possessions and chances, negative things such as greed and selfishness wouldn't exist and the world would be a happier and nicer place.

In conclusion, the song shows us the crazy place that the world has turned into. It also symbolizes why the world is so crazy and it blames it on lazy humans who are all waiting for someone else to stand up and act instead of fighting for what is right. However, at the end of the song the singer seems to reach realization and to understand that from young ages we're all taught that life is unfair but that we have to cope with it because we can't to anything to change it.

Finally, I can relate to the song because I agree with a lot of the band's opinions. I also think that we, humans, are the ones to blame for most of existing pain and suffering in the world and that we shouldn't ignore it but instead try and end with it. Further more, a lot of kids die everyday from diseases that we can prevent but don't because we don't want to share and spend money on curing these people. I agree with the lyrics and think that we should all share at least a little bit to make a change and make this globe a nicer place.

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Task

Fill in the gaps or chose the right word:

Tell me what's **right / wrong** with society When everywhere I look I see Young girls **dying / praying** to be on TV They wont stop 'til they've reached their ..............

Diet **pills / drinks**, surgery Photoshop pictures in magazines **Teaching / telling** them how they should be It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy? Is **everybody / anybody** gonna save me? Can anybody tell me what's going on? Tell me what's going on If you open your ............  You'll see that something is wrong

I guess things are not how they used to be There's no more ........... families Parents act like enemies Making ............. feel like it's world war III

No one **cares / dares**, no one's there I guess we're all just too damn busy Money's our first **majority / priority** It doesn't make ............ to me

