| Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What a fantastic song. Just grows and grows on you. telecasterthommy is spot-on - ambition and loneliness. This is Guy Garvey - "My brother in law met a tower crane driver in a bar who began the night boasting about how well paid he was and how much he loved his job. He ended the night crying into his beer with loneliness. Ambition, if pursued to the cost of everything else, can leave you high, dry and lonely." |
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| Elbow – Grounds for Divorce Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| just to comment on the compass in his sleeve point - I think people are taking that a bit literally. I very much doubt it is a combined compass/watch. If you think about it a compass tells you what direction to go in, and a watch obviously tells you the time, so I think he is saying that when he looks at his watch it tells him it is time that he should be going home, but he doesn't, hence this is one of the "grounds for divorce" that he spending more and more time in the pub when he should be at home with his wife | |
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