In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Isn't it great to exist at this point in time?
Where the produce is rotten but no one is forgotten
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
Children in the sprinkler, junkies on the corner
The smell of fried foods and pure hot tar
Man, you needn't travel far to feel completely alive
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
Where the produce is rotten but no one is forgotten
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
Children in the sprinkler, junkies on the corner
The smell of fried foods and pure hot tar
Man, you needn't travel far to feel completely alive
On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
Lyrics submitted by I Saw Star Wars
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
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Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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This song (Pollard-penned, I suppose) is almost a clear rebuttal to Randy Newman's "Dayton, Ohio - 1903." Newman's song seems to be a commentary on the breakdown of the unwritten social codes which govern people's relations with one another. He wants to evoke a simpler time when "The air was clean and you could see / That folks were nice to you." Newman also links technological and industrial progress and its attendant liabilities with his suppositions that social mores are fraying. That tale, of course, is inextricably tied up with the history of Dayton, Ohio.
Ostensibly, Bob Pollard rises to defend his hometown. The very first line of the song, "Isn't it great to exist at this point in time?" directly contrasts Newman's opener "Sing a song of long ago"
I think the ultimate meaning of the song is more than a simple rebuttal of the acid-tongued composer who gave us the Toy Story theme, however. Pollard's lyrics focus on the negative realities as well as the positive, as the close proximity of the lines "Children in the sprinkler / Junkies on the corner / The smell of fried foods and hot tar" clearly demonstrate (In the mid to late nineties, I conjecture that the once-genteel Dayton neighborhoods of Grafton Hill and Five Oaks on the near West Side were lousy with drug trafficking. I heard somewhere that the Dayton P.D. eventually resorted to placing roadblocks on through streets, which helped them get a handle on the situation.) The coexistence of good and bad qualities is reinforced by the imagery of the "hazy day."
Historical notes aside, I think the way Pollard really responds to Newman is that, even in the face of clearly malicious or evil realities, life is still a thing which is good an worth living. An attentive, peaceful observer and participant can still find meaning and fulfillment in the everyday facts of living, which is why the penultimate line is "Man, you needen't travel far to feel completely alive." No, you needen't not even in the Gem City. Hell, it was good enough to produce one of the great bona fide geniuses of rock and roll.