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Those lines are separate lines of separate couplets. The lines around it are "Paying the bills with my mad programming skills Defragging my hard drive for th
by bena 4y ago
Those lines are separate lines of separate couplets.
The lines around it are
"Paying the bills with my mad programming skills
Defragging my hard drive for thrills
Got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam"
They're not really related to each other besides being right next to each other. The lines rhyme with other lines. Which, if you were trying to link ideas lyrically, is where you'd do it, on the rhyme.
But, the entire song is just a litany of various brags centered around technology. It is, like most of Al's work, pretty clever and knowledgeable. Not only of the source material, but of the subject presented.
- nocman 4y agoYeah, I guess it depends on whether you interpret them as separate. It is possible to think of it in a cause-and-effect way "Defragging my hard drive for thrills got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM". Which, honestly, I could see Al saying that as a purposefully absurd statement (because the first could not cause the second, but people brag like that all of the time). I will admit that, although it seems like it should be (given my profession), this is not one of my favorite Weird Al songs --and I've been a fan for decades. So while I have heard it many times, I can't remember the last time I listened to it.
- bena 4y agoThere's really only one interpretation. There's a definite pause between the lines as well. This isn't really a matter of perspective. The only way I can concede that it's possible to read those lines in your way is not particularly flattering to you.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoI still tell people that I'm double clickin' on my mizouse.