The other day I was in the car and I heard Bowling For Soup's "High School Never Ends." This wasn't the first time I'd heard the song. In fact, I'd heard it often enough that I knew some of the words and could have sung along if I'd wanted.

I don't know what was different about this listening, but I felt like I was truly hearing it for the first time.

The whole damn world is just as obsessed
with who's the best dressed and who's having sex
who's got the money, who gets the honeys
who's kinda cute and who's just a mess.

That's crushing, because they're right.

Who's this the mayor's dicking? Did you hear about the astronaut's diapers? OMG! Can you believe Anna Nicole died?

Is that all we are? Are we just gossips at the back fence? Is there anything left in us that isn't sex and money, death and celebrity? Is Bowling For Soup a harbinger of destruction? Is this song a warning, a subtle scream meant to shake us from the path to Idiocracy?

They're right; there's nothing left of us. Our best is in our past. We are doomed. Our future will be nothing but an endless cycle of envy and schadenfreude as we elevate the meritless only to revel in their failures. Bowling For Soup has shown us the truth.

I despaired.

Then I remembered: it's just Bowling For Fucking Soup.

Then I felt a lot better.