The prompt for this blog was to analyze a song, so I'm going to dedicate this post to some of my favorite parts about one of my favorite songs. This song is "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. One of my favorite things about this song is that it uses contradictions to further specify the mental state that he is singing about. This can be seen in the chorus where he sings "I'm not sick, but I'm not well" to say that he isn't conventionally sick, but his mind isn't well. This highlights the difference between being physically and mentally ill, and I believe that it's saying we shouldn't treat both the same way.
He also uses an over-arching contradiction. Throughout the song, he says things like "I had visions" and "I hear the voices in my head", but he also says things like "You told them all I was crazy" inferring that he believes that he's sane. He also references Hell several times, leading you to believe he sees his life as hell, and saying that he can physically feel it's heat.
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