Talk:The Impression That I Get

Lyrics
In This song, the artist has never had to worry about STDs but he knows someone who has had an aids scare and needed testing so he's going to rely on superstition and "knock on wood" but undertones show he still worries and wonders if he should get tested or if he even could get tested because he really IS worried about it. The duality of the song links this feeling with many aspects and fears in life that many of us all have, the "anticipation of fear is often worse than the actual event itself" Franklin Roosevelt

= Possible AIDS Reference =

There is a common perception that this song is about the speaker's reaction to a friend to being tested for AIDS. This is implied by the lyrics:

I'm not a coward, I've just never been tested I'd like to think that if I was, I would pass Look at the tested and think "there but for the grace go I" I might be a coward, I'm afraid of what I might find out. I've never had to knock on wood But I know someone who has

However, in an online chat, Dickie indicated that the referenced "test" is more about life's tests than AIDS specifically.

Reference: [http://www.comcat.com/~beaudk/bosstones/articles/chat3.html Transcript of Yahoo! Chat with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]

--68.193.239.147 15:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:24, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you stupid? Fair use is implied for any purpose on wikipedia, as wikipedia is a learning resource and this falls under "research" and "teaching" - God, I can't stand your kind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.178.204.10 (talk) 01:10, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Lyrics Copyright violation
I removed the full text of the lyrics, as they constituted a copyright violation as per WP:COPY 69.181.101.68 (talk) 06:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Original Release/Clinic Shooting
I was shocked to find there was no reference to the song's earlier release or its connection to the clinic shootings. Personally, what most people think are references to AIDS in the song are actually references to the women shot at the clinics. 66.31.78.14 (talk) 19:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Citation? --12.22.197.194 (talk) 19:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Clueless
I know the Bosstones were in Clueless, but I am fairly certain this song isn't. I will look for sources to confirm either way.Ucscottb4u (talk) 18:04, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Overall thoughts on the article....
I think the postulations regarding the AIDS virus in this piece are, at this point, mostly speculative. More complete analysis of the idiomatic "knock on wood" and "but for the grace of God do I" phrases could point out valuable metaphors. I'm not against the plausibility of this song being about AIDS or STDS in general, but a paucity of sources may make that difficult to prove. There are some contradictions in the phrasing of this song that are interesting in their own right, from a linguistic point of view. There is some good information here, and I wouldn't delete a thing unless we can provide sources to that end. 184.7.175.199 (talk) 02:45, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * According to the band's FAQ, there's no reference to AIDS in this song. Mari Adkins 11:05, 19 October 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MariAdkins (talk • contribs)