Suburban Nightmare
Life Trap Lyrics
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You live in a perfect world that gives me the cringes!
Fake plastic faces, with a fake perfect smile
Your bullshit so pungent, I can smell it for miles!
So sterilized, so neat and clean,
But suburbia is festering
With so much filth and so much vile
Best friends at day! Backstab each other by night!
Doing sinful acts, so long as it's outta sight!
You're the definition of the word hypocrite
Your lies don't pass by me one little bit!
So sterilized, so neat and clean,
But suburbia is festering
With so much filth and so much vile
The American purist is stuck in denial!
Crash and burn
You'll never fucking learn!
Crash and burn
With the filthy money that you unjustly earned!
In the lyrics of Life Trap's song "Suburban Nightmare," the band dives into critiquing and exposing the facade of the "perfect world" that many people live in within the suburbs. The opening lines set the scene: "Perfect little houses, with neat picket fences/ You live in a perfect world that gives me the cringes!" The song goes on to detail the superficiality of suburbia, including the "fake plastic faces" and "fake perfect smile" of the people who inhabit it. The song highlights the hypocrisy of these people, who may act like best friends during the day but are quick to "backstab each other by night," or engage in sinful behavior as long as it is kept under wraps.
Overall, "Suburban Nightmare" is a scathing critique of suburbia and the culture that it inspires. The song suggests that while the suburbs might look clean and perfect on the outside, underneath the surface lies "so much filth and so much vile." The American purist, it seems, is stuck in denial, unwilling or unable to see the truth of the world they have created for themselves.
Line by Line Meaning
Perfect little houses, with neat picket fences
You live in a neighborhood that's aggressively well-groomed and ordered.
You live in a perfect world that gives me the cringes!
I'm uncomfortable with how fake and perfect everything here seems.
Fake plastic faces, with a fake perfect smile
Your insincerity and inauthenticity is evident in your appearance and demeanor.
Your bullshit so pungent, I can smell it for miles!
Your lies and deceit are so powerful and pervasive, they're off-putting from far away.
So sterilized, so neat and clean,
Everything here is aggressively sanitized and unblemished.
But suburbia is festering
Underneath the surface, there's an ugliness and decay that's spreading.
With so much filth and so much vile
There's a lot of disgust and wickedness lurking around here.
The American purist is stuck in denial!
The idealized, rigid values of typical Americana can't accept the reality of life's messiness and contradictions.
Best friends at day! Backstab each other by night!
The superficially harmonious relationships here conceal toxic betrayal and sabotage.
Doing sinful acts, so long as it's outta sight!
People here are hypocrites who engage in immoral behavior if they think they can keep it a secret.
You're the definition of the word hypocrite
You epitomize the trait of saying one thing and doing another, pretending to be virtuous while secretly succumbing to vice.
Your lies don't pass by me one little bit!
I see right through the falsehoods you perpetuate in this supposedly perfect place.
Crash and burn
Your downfall and failure are inevitable.
You'll never fucking learn!
You're too stubborn and self-deluded to gain any wisdom or growth from your failures.
With the filthy money that you unjustly earned!
You will go down in flames using the unethical wealth you've amassed with dishonesty and corruption.
Contributed by Matthew W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@basbas768
I really don't know how people can stay in haunted houses. If I heard something whispering my name I would run with the speed of light and I would never return.
@hun73rentertainment76
😂😂😂👌
@jugantarhazarika3100
Same bro
@nicolajayden
Sometimes u just cant leave straight away, Money issues etc. . U need somewhere to be able to go?...
@arshansulaiman4050
Yes thats what i always think. Nobody can live in a haunted house,.. no one is that courageous. But in every episode you can see all living with ghost or spirit, as if nothing happened and comfortably sleeping. Can u imagine???
@Paul-py1sn
Sometimes the spirit will follow you no matter where you move.
@kieranhart5776
Does anyone else watch this show late night. At home all alone? Makes it a bit scarier I think
@adriennedickens9092
Yep 😂❤
@mykellhunkins9007
You say this on literally every episode…
@davidacosta147
Yes 2:09 am