Letra de
Flagpole Sitta

A música Flagpole Sitta da banda Harvey Danger fala sobre a desilusão e o cinismo da geração X, refletindo o sentimento de alienação e descontentamento. Foi escrita em um período em que o vocalista Sean Nelson estava passando por uma fase de descontentamento tanto pessoal quanto profissional.

I had visions, I was in them, I was looking into the mirror
to see a little bit clearer, the rottenness and evil in me
Fingertips have memories, mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty, I run it up the flagpole and see
who salutes, but no one ever does

I'm not sick but I'm not well, and I'm so hot, cause I'm in hell

Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a TV
Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy, they cut off my legs now
I'm an amputee, god damn you

I'm not sick but I'm not well, and I'm so hot, cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well, and it's a sin, to live so well

I wanna publish 'zines, and rage against machines
I wanna pierce my tongue, it doesn't hurt, it feels fine
The trivial sublime, I'd like to turn off time
and kill my mind, you kill my mind

Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's comin' to get me
Just say you never met me, I'm going underground with the moles (digging holes)
Hear the voices in my head, I swear to god it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring, the agony and the irony
they're killing me woah

I'm not sick but I'm not well, and I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well, and it's a sin to live so well