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This is the correct answer. Love it
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See, I just didn’t understand that was the meaning of the line at all! All I could think about was 80s arcade games 🤷♀️
If “space invader” was a well-known idiom for an intrusive thought it would make sense, otherwise it just comes across as obtuse IMO.
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I love System, but “We’re in a different kind of thing now” is one of the laziest lines ever written.
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I’m personally not a fan of Matt’s propensity to use a silly rhyming word/phrase when he can’t come up with anything meaningful. I mean “It’ll come to me later like a space invader” annoys me because it’s nonsense.
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OK, I’m going to say it: I always thought it was a cringey sounding idea and Matt spent too much time trying to launch his brother’s career
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I miss that a LOT
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That was always my interpretation too! But I like the other take just as much 😎
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I have a long running issue with the lyrics in that they are so often about a marriage on shaky ground. I know Matt and Carin have joked that lyric writing is their equivalent of marriage counselling, but it shows and the writing isn’t all the better for it. I’m just tired of all the same themes appearing over and over since TWFM.
For me the run of Alligator-Boxer-High Violet was their lyrical peak.