Can't believe nobody ever commented on this song. This is one of those philosophy-of-life/disillusionment songs that crop up among the best rock bands. Stylistically these songs vary but they usually have a similar theme: smashed dreams, loss of innocence, struggling to go on in the face of failure of one's hopes. I think of The The's "This Is The Day," The Grateful Dead's "Box of Rain," Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime," Marmalade's "Reflections of My Life," The Kinks' "Life Goes On," and this song by Little Feat (written by guitarist Paul Barrère but with lead vocal by the band's other guitarist, the ill-fated Lowell George) as falling in this category. Some are jaunty (The Kinks and, in a different way, Talking Heads), some are sad and somber (Marmalade), some sound like (in a manner like much of Little Feat's music) 3 a.m. in a barroom after too much whiskey and bad cocaine (to quote a lyric from another Little Feat song). I have no idea what was going through Paul Barrère's brain when he wrote this, but it's unforgettable.
Can't believe nobody ever commented on this song. This is one of those philosophy-of-life/disillusionment songs that crop up among the best rock bands. Stylistically these songs vary but they usually have a similar theme: smashed dreams, loss of innocence, struggling to go on in the face of failure of one's hopes. I think of The The's "This Is The Day," The Grateful Dead's "Box of Rain," Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime," Marmalade's "Reflections of My Life," The Kinks' "Life Goes On," and this song by Little Feat (written by guitarist Paul Barrère but with lead vocal by the band's other guitarist, the ill-fated Lowell George) as falling in this category. Some are jaunty (The Kinks and, in a different way, Talking Heads), some are sad and somber (Marmalade), some sound like (in a manner like much of Little Feat's music) 3 a.m. in a barroom after too much whiskey and bad cocaine (to quote a lyric from another Little Feat song). I have no idea what was going through Paul Barrère's brain when he wrote this, but it's unforgettable.