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Review of Maroon By the Barenaked Ladies

y-Getting strength trying to learn it my own way."The second song on the album, “Never Do Anything,” is an upbeat song of a deadbeat who is just signing and proclaiming that they will never do anything. As with many of the BNL’s songs, one can see the response, this person singing the song is giving to someone who asks, “Are you ever going to do anything or just sit on you’re a**!?!” The chorus sums their response to this and this song up very well: “I can be that- but soon you’ll see that- I will never do anything.”The third song and their first single off the album, “Pinch Me” is about Joe Blow—an ordinary guy who has big reams and big ambitions. There is only one problem, in reality; he lives this life in a dream world while sleepwalking through his daily routine. The song is up beat but the lyrics alone suggest something else:"Please God tell me that I'm still asleep-On an evening such as this it's hard to tell if I exist-Pack the car and leave this town and notice that I'm not around-I can hide out under there-I just made you say underwear-I could leave but I'll just stay-All my stuff's here anyway."“Go Home,” speaks of a wandering-eyed country boy to return home to his high school sweetheart, mixed into a twangy sound that makes this song fun to listen to. This song speaks of making sure you are with the one you should be or the felling that you left a love that you shouldn’t have, all depending on the mood you are in. “If you’re lucky to be one of the few- to find somebody who can tolerate you- Then I shouldn’t have to tell you again- Just pack you bags and get yourself on a plane- If you need her, you should be there- Go home.”“Falling For The First Time” is feelings that we can all understand even if we don’t think that way. It speaks of all the times that we are all “high and almighty...

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