Worst Manics lyric

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Originally Posted by UEF

While we're at it, what is a 'misguided tweet'? What constitutes 'sad Facebooking'?

Does Nicky mean 'sad' as in 'unhappy' or as in 'you need to get a life mate'? If so...

I don’t think that is a bad lyric at all, I don’t think it’s supposed to be read alone. It gets its meaning from the rest of the chorus, which forms one strong image/statement.

Just my thoughts from the song about meaning, to me I take those lyrics like this (hope these are the right lyrics ) :
Misguided tweets – (1) People often read something on the internet and base their opinion on very little and inaccurate information. It then gets spread as fact and people are misguided about the views they form. So you repost/retweet without thinking. You ‘support’ a charity for example, by sharing their post appeal for donations, but don’t actually donate yourself.
(2) People expose so much of their lives freely online, not thinking of how they’ll be perceived.

Sad facebooking – I feel like it’s an observation of how people often behave now when out with friends. People don’t get the full experience of life, because they need to tell everyone about it. It’s almost automatic whenever something good happens, people feel the need to tell others and get validation. You don’t privately feel happy about life anymore, everyone needs to know. People often go on a night out and spend lots of time updating their status or uploading photos because they feel a need to prove or show others that they’re having fun. By feeling compelled to tell everyone about the fun you’re having, you are actually missing out on the real fun.
For me, these lines really get their meaning from the others in the chorus.

Look up to the skies- avoid the casual litter – take a wider look at the world around you and don’t get bogged down with what everyone else is doing – once you do you’ll see it’s completely irrelevant to you and your life.
Running from the pitiful nihilism – wanting to escape the thing (social media) which takes the meaning out of what you are doing. The pointlessness of needing everyone to know everything you are doing.
The cheapness surrounds me – the way that everyone constantly needs to say what they are doing, no matter how trivial cheapens the experience for everyone.

But I’m not looking – to me this sounds really defiant. It’s a refusal to pander to those people who seek attention constantly and to validate them. They are going to ‘look up to the sky’ and experience life for themselves, doing exactly what they want to do – not what others would approve of.

The song to me is a refusal to get sucked in to the shit that social media throws at you and makes you believe it is important. It’s about reclaiming your life from the petty stuff that everyone else is doing and to which you compare yourself to.