So I heard another song this last week that immediately made me think of class (the first line is “Well she lives in the fairy tale”). The song was called “Brick by Boring Brick” and was by Paramore, an alternative rock/emo band. You can watch the video below … the song is definitely a commentary against the belief in a fairy tale romances. While Hayley Williams (the lead singer) is very much an emo singer and can be very dramatic, she has a point here. One line that is repeated several times through the song is “keep your feet on the ground when your head’s in the clouds.” This is obviously a warning not to get caught up in anything that seems too good to be true – it usually ends up letting you down. The chorus of the song is below:

Well go get your shovel
And we’ll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle.

It really adds to this theme of warning people against getting caught up in fairy tales – instead they should “bury the castle” and just live their lives. A later line, “well you built up a world of magic because your real life is tragic” pretty much sums it up. Some people can build up their perfect fairy tale romance in their heads and forget to live their real lives.