| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Can you edit? This is my first post---I meant [above, 2nd to last paragraph]: "The type of anger where you you realize that as hurtful or disappointing or dishonest or unreliable as this person is...ultimately they're a congenital mess, and you more stable, healthier, more mature, and they are more to be pitied than censured. |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[bks:21162] Holy Toledo! I just posted --first time on this website, and not having seen your comment--and that was my theory---I have always intuited the song is about his father. Cool! | |
| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I have heard Still the same for a million years but always thought he sang "You're still the same/You still ain't hot," as in a hot streak--not actually having significant wins--that all his gambles were measured and calculated, despite his slightly pathetic grandiloquence. "You still aim high," to me, carries the same approximate emotional tenor, but is more far subtle in its irony or reproach. I've always imagined a flamboyant ne'er do well absent father, who, when they get together, holds forth with his wisdom and sagacity of what it means to be a "winner" in this world, son--but, by this time, all illusions have long since dropped away about the reality of who this guy is, who talks a big game, wields charm to manipulate people, is constitutionally dishonest, narcissistic, glib, braggadocious, waxing on about how he's going to hit it big--and kind of sad. The protagonist or storyteller is ambivalent about all this. He doesn't have the wherwithal to directly challeng or confront him, with anger, all these years later, and instead ends up sort of resigned, exasperated, mildly despairing, sad, but still angry. The type of anger where you you realize that as hurtful or disappointing or dishonest or unreliable as this person is...ultimately they're a congenital mess, more stable, healthier, more mature and they are more to be pitied than censured. It never sounded like an ex, to me. The phrase "still the same" when coupled with the emotional tenor of the song pointed to long-ago relationship with someone he really counted on, and who let him down, not only by what he did---but by who he actually is, in the light of day, from a grown-up perspective. There's a sense of childlike lack of agency, or unequal power dynamic, that goes beyond most "partner" or spouse relationships, and you can hear the vestiges of his having profoundly admired this guy at one time in his life. |
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| The Wedding Present – Mars Sparkles Down On Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Great song -- expresses sentiments spot-on, unlike anything else in popular music, ever. wrong lyric: I should stop calling on our wind correction: I should stop calling on whim |
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