Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I kissed the kids at noon
Then stumbled out the room
I caught a cab, ran up a tab
On 7th and Flower
Best recital, I had to run
Missed my son's graduation
Punched the Nickle's boy
For taking his seat
He gets all that anger from me
Still things could be much worse
Natural disasters on the evening news
Still things could be much worse
We still got our health
My paycheck in the mail
I promised to my wife and children
I'd never touch another drink
As long as I live but even then
It sounds so soothing
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time
I'm just an honest man
Provide for me and mine
I give a check to tax deductible
Charity organizations
Two weeks paid vacation
Won't heal the damage done
I need another one
Still things could be much worse
Natural disasters on the evening news
Still things could be much worse
We still got our health
My paycheck in the mail
I promised to my wife and children
I'd never touch another drink
As long as I live but even then
It sounds so soothing to mix a gin
And sink into oblivion
I promised to my wife and children
That accident left everyone a little shook up
But at the meetings I felt so empty
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time
Mm la da da da da ah da da da da la da da da ooh
Ah la da da da la da da da da ah la da da da ooh
Then stumbled out the room
I caught a cab, ran up a tab
On 7th and Flower
Best recital, I had to run
Missed my son's graduation
Punched the Nickle's boy
For taking his seat
He gets all that anger from me
Still things could be much worse
Natural disasters on the evening news
Still things could be much worse
We still got our health
My paycheck in the mail
I promised to my wife and children
I'd never touch another drink
As long as I live but even then
It sounds so soothing
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time
I'm just an honest man
Provide for me and mine
I give a check to tax deductible
Charity organizations
Two weeks paid vacation
Won't heal the damage done
I need another one
Still things could be much worse
Natural disasters on the evening news
Still things could be much worse
We still got our health
My paycheck in the mail
I promised to my wife and children
I'd never touch another drink
As long as I live but even then
It sounds so soothing to mix a gin
And sink into oblivion
I promised to my wife and children
That accident left everyone a little shook up
But at the meetings I felt so empty
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time
Mm la da da da da ah da da da da la da da da ooh
Ah la da da da la da da da da ah la da da da ooh
Lyrics submitted by euthanasia27, edited by Mellow_Harsher, 3rd Planet
We Used to Vacation Lyrics as written by Matthew Cole Aveiro Jonathan Bo Russell
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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by rav4guy on 08-12-2006 @ 10:40:29 PM very poignant writing. a song about a man looking back on his childhood and his father's alcohol addiction, but seeing the situation from his father's perspective in an attempt to jusitfy his behavior. in the same vein as death cab's "styrofoam plates", but with less animosity and more empathy on the part of the singer.
I agree that it's poignant, but rav4, I'm curious--what makes you think this is the son, not the father? The lyrics themselves seem to be pretty clearly in the first person, and I can't find anything in the song that makes it sound like the speaker isn't truly the one battling the alcohol addiction. On the contrary, lines like "It sounds so soothing / to mix a gin / and sink into oblivion" would take some pretty serious getting-into-his-shoes-ness for a kid tell a parent who missed graduations, ruined recitals, and got into an accident that "left everyone a little shook up."
I once was that kid. And the accident left me shook up enough that I can't imagine gin-mixing being anything but nauseating, let alone soothing.
I think this has got to be the dad.
the song is about nathan's grandfather