| Brandtson – Escapist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I really doubt that msdelaney is "personal friends" with Jared Jolley, and her interpretation is incredibly stretching -- assuming three different narrators, some of them dead, and misinterpreting tenses. In my opinion, this song is clearly about a relationship in which the guy is expecting one thing and the girl is expecting another, and so he breaks up with her. "And this one is certainly an interesting story: It starts with an ending." This 'story' starts with an ending as Guy is wising up to the many reasons why this relationship has to end. "And we're both characters in a play, On the same stage but on a different page." They're both actors, acting together but not for the same reasons. She is living out some fantasy of love, and he's just following her lead, but for him, this isn't a love fantasy, it's kind of like torture. "And you'll go on to become the queen of some kingdom, And I'll be that monster of myth off in some forest, mire or filth, yeah." When he breaks up with her, it won't stop her from living out her perfect fantasy -- she'll be beautiful, popular, and wise. But in her eyes, he'll be a monster for ruining her fantasy -- she'll dream that his life will be wretched, because that would make her feel better about his dumping her. "This time around I'll meeet you halfway... And I won't spend my life Lying awake at night." For the first time, he's not just letting her run their relationship. He's going to take initiative too, and free himself, which will make him feel better, instead of lying awake at night wondering what-if or why he's still here. "And they'll say I'm the emerald missing from your crown; The greatest escapist The world has ever known" In the epic story that is her fantasy life, by dumping her he's becoming the one thing she'll never have. Everyone will whisper that losing him was the only thing in her life that wasn't perfect. He's the great escapist who got away. "Now it's so clear to me we should have seen this coming Back at the beginning. We both chose to take this road To the same place, but at a different pace." They should have seen much earlier on that they were incompatible, that she was living in a fantasy world and that he couldn't do that. But he's the one who reached the inevitable conclusion first: he's not the perfect prince she wants him to be, and this won't work out. They would've realized eventually, even if only after a failed marriage, but he's ready to end it now. "This time around..." "And they'll say..." "And I'll say I'm the fabled one who let you down! The greatest escapist The world has ever known." Here Guy shows us that really he's glad to be out of this miserable relationship. He'll brag to his friends about the way she built up their relationship into an epic love story, and he didn't play along. He's the escapist -- the one who got away -- that's his real role in the story. I think this song is kind of bratty and snide, but confident and straight-forward. I love that it's so refreshing, so different from everything else out there! |
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