Poetry in Music

I was watching American Idol and heard Adam Lambert sing this beautiful song, 'Mad World'. I thought the music was haunting and the lyrics beautiful. Take a look at the lyrics. (you can listen to Lambert singing this song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hik9OpRDN50 )

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Goin' nowhere, goin' nowhere
Their tears are fillin' up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world

Children waitin' for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me


I read the lyrics over and over again and I found them so melancholic, so dismal. The persona must be so jaded with life to think that the dreams where he was dying are the best he had ever had.

Why do people run in circles? Do they do that to run away from their own lives only to begin where they had started?

What's your 2 cents worth of the words behind this lyrics?

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