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Had a legit Keyzer Soze moment when I learned the true meaning of Thunder

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crystalline church indirect expression
  02/21/18
Not in the habit of saying the same thing someone else said ...
crystalline church indirect expression
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Honey-headed Zippy French Chef
  02/21/18
Fucking retarded
well-lubricated irradiated karate home
  02/21/18
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Laughsome circlehead shrine
  02/21/18
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pearl bespoke whorehouse personal credit line
  02/22/18
wut
passionate ruddy crotch
  02/21/18
Thought this was about AC/DC thunderstruck for a minute and...
internet-worthy ebony lay double fault
  02/21/18
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Adventurous step-uncle's house gaping
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crystalline church indirect expression
  02/22/18
you mean the garth brooks lyric about an old woman fucking a...
Jade Sanctuary
  02/22/18


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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:29 AM
Author: crystalline church indirect expression



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:47 AM
Author: crystalline church indirect expression

Not in the habit of saying the same thing someone else said 10x better so I'll just leave this here. (But this is why songs like Thunder, and frankly every single 'Dragons' EP since 2012 are collectively the 21st cent. Beethoven Sonatas. The cipher to understanding the intersection of commerce and spirituality. ID music can't be polarizing because it transcends taste. It activates the most primitive part of our DNA. The part that makes us feel alive and at one with the world. But I digress...)

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"Thunder": I Made It Because I Dreamed I Could

So, the lyrics of "Thunder" aren't very complicated, and the song, in fact, only has three unique stanzas. The basic premise is that Dan Reynolds is taking us back to when he was a child and a dreamer. Back then, he dreamed of the amazing things he wanted to do and didn't let his peers (who didn't bother to dream) keep him back. The idea of the title of "Thunder" is that when he was a kid, he was "lightning before the thunder." He was dreaming--there was that flash of light--but the rumbling thunder of success was coming.

Verse 1

Just a young gun with a quick fuse

I was uptight, wanna let loose

I was dreaming of bigger things in

Wanna leave my own life behind

Not a yes-sir, not a follower

Fit the box, fit the mold

Have a seat in the foyer, take a number

I was lightning before the thunder

Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds sings that he was a "young gun with a quick fuse" perhaps because he was quick-tempered or high energy. He did what he wanted to and acknowledges that he was "uptight" and wanted to "let loose" because he had so much pent up energy. He dreamed "of bigger things" than his peers and wanted to "leave [his] own life behind." He was unhappy with where he was and wanted to be in a better place.

He never saw himself as a "yes-sir"--someone who obeys tells authorities what they want to hear--and didn't want to be a "follower." He wanted to blaze his own trail. He determined not to "[f]it the box" or "the mold." And even though he was told to "[h]ave a seat in the foyer" and "take a number," he wasn't going to obey. The "seat" and "number" could refer to his attempts to break into the music industry as he was trying out or auditioning for different opportunities, but they could also be referring to how he approached his entire life.

It's the end of this stanza where Imagine Dragons tells us that Reynolds saw himself as "lightning before the thunder"--that idea before it's executed--the pre-warning of something greater to come.

Chorus

Thunder, feel the thunder

Lightning and the thunder

Thunder, feel the thunder

Lightning and the thunder

Thunder, thunder

Thunder

Being so repetitive, there's not much to be said for the chorus. It mostly capitalizes on the ideas laid down in the last lyric of the first verse and gives the effect of Reynolds and Imagine Dragons mulling over the idea.

Verse 2

Kids were laughing in my classes

While I was scheming for the masses

Who do you think you are

Dreaming 'bout being a big star?

You say you're basic, you say you're easy

You're always riding in the back seat

Now I'm smiling from the stage

While you were clapping in the nose bleeds

In the second verse, Reynolds and Imagine Dragons share more details about growing up as a dreamer. Reynolds tells us about kids in his (perhaps) high school classes who would laugh at him or goof off while he "was scheming for the masses"--planning to create something that millions would enjoy.

Others would ask him, "Who do you think you are / Dreaming 'bout being a big star?" but he ignored them and calls out people who make excuses for their lack of effort--those who excuse themselves by putting themselves into boxes like "basic" or "easy"--perhaps a reference to "easygoing." He tells them they're always "riding in the back seat," but because he didn't "take it easy," he's "smiling from the stage" while they can't even afford good seats to his shows and have to sit "clapping in the nose bleeds."

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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:43 AM
Author: Honey-headed Zippy French Chef



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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:47 AM
Author: well-lubricated irradiated karate home

Fucking retarded

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Date: February 21st, 2018 7:34 AM
Author: Laughsome circlehead shrine



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Date: February 21st, 2018 7:45 AM
Author: Exciting Grizzly Legal Warrant



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 4:19 PM
Author: pearl bespoke whorehouse personal credit line



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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:55 AM
Author: passionate ruddy crotch

wut

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Date: February 21st, 2018 7:18 AM
Author: internet-worthy ebony lay double fault

Thought this was about AC/DC thunderstruck for a minute and was disappointed

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Date: February 21st, 2018 7:45 AM
Author: Adventurous step-uncle's house gaping



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: crystalline church indirect expression



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 4:21 PM
Author: Jade Sanctuary

you mean the garth brooks lyric about an old woman fucking a teen boy all summer

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