| The Radio Dept. – David Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I confer until you assume the speaker is a comfortable homosexual. "Just like I've been doing all my life" follows right behind "always asking why." The whole thing doesn't follow the progression of a dialogue, but it mimics one when he confronts David by addressing him: "Oh David..." With this dialogue nature, the lyrics can build on each other, therefore the placement is important and so the speaker too has been asking all his life. I see a different possible scenario playing out too. The speaker defines his sexuality here, but we have no physical evidence that David is a closet. We only have the speaker's projection that David is "lost inside." With the speaker being a closeted homosexual in a long term bromance with David (he couldn't say David was like this for 20 years unless they knew each other for a while), he would have good reason to see the evidence his way. We also have no evidence of how David accepted this confrontation (could have even been an imagined one for that matter). We only have evidence that the speaker wants David. "I've been holding on for all our lives." I personally love the ambiguity; it's the sure sign of some fantastic lyrics. |
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