The Weasel Days

The lyrics by Ben, I have come to finally analyse with perspective.  He was a genius for writing for the outcast. It is nice to feel a song is written for you.  One of the main powers of punk is that it never truly makes it into the mainstream, so it still feels special to you as an individual, having avoided the mediocrity of popularity.  But the words of many of his songs are not a settling point, they talk of being lost and frustrated, "I'm in my own world and it is falling apart." Yes this supports the idea that to be an outcast gives an important perspective that you can't get if you have somehow fallen into being a sheep or in a relationship with someone with adamantly different opinions then your own, but it leaves you torn apart when you are in your own world, falling apart.  I feel Screeching Weasel during my days was a question, that I am still trying to answer. Don't think that it is a solution, it is a question, and that is one of the things I lov