blowing my mind

I'll try to do this without going into a platonic discussion of what irony is... I've always contended that the song Ironic has nothing ironic at all in the lyrics. Rain on your wedding day just sucks, same with a free ride when you've already paid or good advice that you didn't take etc... however, I realized inthe shower last night that "mr play it safe who was afraid to fly and packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye, he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and as the plane crashed down he thought well isnt this nice" IS ironic... not because his plane crashed, but because he thought "well isn't this nice" while the plane was crashing... SO the song does contain an example of irony in teh lyrics... now here is where things get interesting... I had always thought that the most ironic thing about the song Ironic is that there is nothing ironic in the lyrics... but now that there IS irony in the lyrics that greater irony about the lack of irony is gone... So by discovering Irony in the song the song has become less ironic. Bu bu bub BUT that new state of affairs whereby the song's containing irony makes it less ironic is itself very ironic indeed! I can go on, because the fact that by having irony the song becomes less ironic which is ironic is ALSO ironic. At this point I have to breathe and stop thinking about the whole thing, but I sense a really shitty MA thesis in there somewhere. UGH. goodmorning!