| The Tragically Hip – Throwing Off Glass Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this one is pretty simple. This is clearly one of those moment in time songs where a cartain sequence of events is represented in a single song. This particular event seems to me to be Gord and his daughter either driving or walking down a road seeing a bunch of teenagers acting like typical teenagers, throwing maybe beer bottles or somethign out the window of their car and acting crazy. His daughter asdks him "why is this world so creepy" and Gord explains to her that within all the creepiness you can find that the world is actually quite beautiful and "exquisite". Another aspect of this song is how Gord is watching his daughter grow up and he knows that soon enough she wiill no longer need him to explain these things to her, that she will be able to define those events for herself and gain her own appreciation and interpritation of the world as she sees it. Gord recognizes that as part of that shared growth his nessecity will dwindle as she becomes stronger and more reliant on herself and less on him. As a father of 3 daughters, I that particular lyric rings especially true to me. "i know i'm losing you i know what that means" This one stanza in particular: "once you've said mm in unison and oh in double surprise and shared relief with a mutual phew and a look in each others' eyes" I believe this part of the song represents a fathers own recognition of how time passes quickly and how one must relish the moments when you share in an almost exactness with your child. The recognized mmm in unisosn, oh in double suprise, a shared mutual phew and a look in each others eyes. As children grow up and experience more of the world through thier own unique perspective those moments become less and less as they develop thier own human experience. I could be dead wrong about this but thats how the song sings to me... |
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