Q: "and then twist it all around then put it down" doing things badly on purpose, and then letting them go for a while before you get back to straightening them out  "and i'm bobblin down 124th street and i think i'm bobblin to a brighter day" optimism  "and the radio's playing a different kind of music and the universe is starting t
 o shake" different music=change= brighter day shake=change=brighter day  "look at the time, it's 12;30 i'm going to hell, and i'm late for it" if you can people feel good about something bad, then you're bulletproof in life.  "but i'll slow down and talk about it" going back home lyrically to say 'slowing down's gonna right your wrongs.' this is your dissonant optimism at work: you're pretending you can SLOW DOWN to fix BEING LATE, but your conviction regarding this is so strong that you just might be right.  "and the world goes round and then comes back down" could you talk about this a little?
A: sure. that's one of the worst lines in the song. you can see with most of this, i seemed to slip into this sort of "A A B" sectionality, where i do a couple of verses, then bounce to a bridge, then do a couple more verses, then another bridge, and back. i mean, it's not bad to do that, it's just in some points it kind of feels like it's on auto-pilot. It's likely that that line "world goes round and then comes back down" seems to represent the feeling of cycling through these song sections in this way.