There's a Harvey Danger song ("Moral Centralia") that contains a lyric that reminds me of this song, though the situation is reversed: "I'd like to go back ten years / and show you a picture of yourself now / but I'm afraid that it might kill you then"

It wasn't "Brick" that made me take notice of Ben Folds Five, (thank god), and it wasn't "Song for the Dumped", and, well, shit, it wasn't this one either. It was actually "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces", which I could relate to (being a skinny geeky white boy in a school system full of white skaters [with the very tops of their hair bleached, remember that trend? jesus] and mexican wannabe-vatos, I tended to get picked on a lot) strongly and caused me to buy the album and discover this song, which over the years has stuck with me and caused me not to turn into the person described therein.

If anything this song merely perfectly describes the kind of person who never grows up past high school, that person who thinks they're cool as shit because they haven't done anything since and spend all their time sleeping all day and listening to music. These people want you to believe that their life makes them happy, that they're so cool for not caring about anything and that things like jobs and reality are for other people. Unfortunately for them they are actually the antithesis of happy, of cool, and while the lives they lead may be attractive to those who are feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders, most people know that they're just losers, and that more than likely they were just unpopular losers in high school as well.

Local H's "Cool Magnet" also reminds me of this song.

Whatever and ever amen.