| Damien Jurado – Hoquiam Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I appreciate your analysis, but I don't think he's so much wondering as trying to accept the fact that this person in fact is not where he is at. He has been solidly in the relationship from the beginning, and although he's using questions, they seem more rhetorical, bordering on almost a very sad, lonely kind of sarcasm, rather than questions that he is actually looking for answers to. He's not wondering IF she doesn't return his sentiments, but WHY she doesn't. It sounds like she's a drama queen (You'd fake your own death to get concern, only pays attention to him when someone calls him out for a fault and she has to dramatically defend him, etc.), and even though he knows that she is just in it for the show, his feelings are real. I do not think the car ride is supposed to be taken literally, but as a metaphor, however you choose to interpret that. (Think of the scenery, the isolation, the freedom from scrutinizing eyes of society.) The best cue that let's you know that this is not a literal event is when he tells his lover, "You should have seen us." I think this must be a rather classic tale of when you find out that the other person was never completely invested in a relationship that you thought was real and was important to you. If anyone disagrees or has insight into many of the nuances that occur throughout the song, I'd love to hear what other people get out of it, because I think this is one of those interesting songs that you could probably listen to a hundred times and still find something new in it each time. |
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