The 88
At Least It Was Here
The theme song for the TV show community is about hanging oneself. Written by the rock group The 88, the catchy song seems to be about life, second chances and hope...which it is. But there's a darkness to failure that even a thousand snarky pop culture references can't heal. The Community theme actually covers this. It might sound upbeat and bouncy, like a kid who's eaten a pixie stick, but it is in fact about resentment and fear. From this bummer of an angle, it fits even better in the crazy world of Community, which features a bunch of characters who are afraid that they're not good enough to exist in the real world. That kind of depressive defiance really gels with lines like "I'm tired of the wait and sees" and "I'm tired of that part of me." The dread of moving on and leaving the past behind is a major theme in creator Dan Harmon's work. Verse: Give me some rope Tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it can be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year