#A COMPLICATED SONG LYRICS GENIUS MOVIE#

You're sitting there nodding because you don't want them to think you're stupid, but what you really think is, there's a lot of easier ways to say it, and you wonder if they even know what they're talking about or if they're just showing off. You ever sit down and have a conversation with somebody who took their formal education too seriously, and they're speaking and throwing in a bunch of words that you don't have a ready meaning for?

My experience was trying to adjust to a world where that circumstance was not the rule rather than the exception.'ДЄlthough he writes lyrics that are easy to understand, Withers describes himself as a 'Lyrics Snob.' He explains: 'It's very difficult to make things simple and understandable. My socialization was, it was very likely and very practical to expect a Lean On Me circumstance to exist. I thought it was funny when everybody got worked up over Strom Thurmond having this daughter, and I thought, 'What else is new?' It depends on your socialization. Just like the whole American experience, it's very complex and it has it's own little rules and stuff. He comes back walking with a tire, and he actually helps me put the tire on the car. This guy goes walking back across the hill, and I'm not too comfortable here because I know where I am. He says to me, 'Oh, you had a blowout.' Well, I didn't have a spare tire.

#A COMPLICATED SONG LYRICS GENIUS MOVIE#

This guy comes walking over the hill that looked like he was right out of the movie Deliverance. As is the case with young people with cheap cars, the tires weren't that great, so one of my tires blew out on this rural Alabama road. It was a holiday, I had this car that I was able to buy and I was driving up to West Virginia. He told Songfacts: 'When I was in the Navy, I must have been about 18, 19 years old, and I was stationed in Pensacola, Florida. The essence of this song was ingrained in Withers's upbringing.

A complicated song lyrics genius