MP3: The Bear Quartet - Born with teeth
"Born with teeth and a thorn in everybody's side" The desire to be a jerk for the sake of being a jerk. C'mon and fess up, you know you've done it. Face it, some people deserve to be antagonized. In a way, The Bear Quartet has made a career of it. Not just defying expectations, but seeing how far they can go to alienate everyone around them. And that's exactly what this song is about. "No one's gonna run me out but everybody ran me out" Mattias says. If you say "play by my rules or not at all," sometimes that means you won't play and BQ knows it. An acceptable risk? Perhaps if you measure success based on integrity, "but I'm sad to say: your ways will never make your records sell." Many now-heralded bands never survived long enough to garner the respect (and success) they deserve during their lifetime. Maybe BQ will defy convention in this regard too, but I kinda doubt it. They will continue to defy and antagonize. I don't think they can help it - it's who they are and you either love them for it or you don't.
The Bear Quartet - Born with teeth