"Funny the Way It Is" is a song mainly about irony. The song in itself is ironic because it is talking about sad things but it has an upbeat tune. In the song dave says, "Funny the way it is if you think about it, somebody's growing hungry someone else is eating out." However, when he says that this is funny, he is really trying to point out what a confused world we live in, where great things can be happening to people somewhere, and terrible things can be happening to other people at the same time.
The main question that this song makes me wonder is if this is really just the way things are in the world and we should accept it. Should we accept that some children are dying from constant violence and warfare, while other children are smiling and running around pointing their imaginary guns at their friends? Personally, I think this song is meant to open peoples eyes and say that it is not okay to have this attitude of: well, that's just the way things are.
Another thing that struck me about this song was the ending when Dave says: "Standing on a bridge, watch the water pass from underneath, it must have been much harder when there was no bridge just water. Now the world is small compared to how it used to be.." I am not sure why but this has always been my favorite part of the song. Maybe its because it just shows how now we are all connected to each other, so there is no reason that we should not care about what is going on somewhere on the other side of the world.
I believe that this song can affect our culture because it says a lot about how we are as human beings. Most of us do not take the time to really think about what is going on somewhere else at the same time as we are living our normal lives. It talks about the irony in the world, and how bad things are happening at the same time as good things, and it should make people wonder what can be done about this.
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