| Cake – The Guitar Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's not about a real musician, he just compares with the routine of one. Like we're all musicians who go from place to place, trying to figure out what we want. I heard the song as if it was about someone who is the kind of person that brights up the place. The kind of person that stops all conversation when gets into a bar, and everyone who know him believes he is an interesting and amazing person. He doesnt think that way, thou. He is lost, he doesn't know what he wants, he doesnt really have a place to go, so hes just wandering around, trying to find something to get attached to. So he goes from place to place trying to find something or someone to live for. but he never truly does. Because he's such an intense person, people want to get to know him so bad. People get curious about him, they think they know what he's been through or what he's all about, and try to connect with him. He let this people in, and he gives himself to te fullest, so he loves them all he can, but at some point he realizes that's not what he wants, so he need to find someone else, somewhere else. And b/c of that, he break people down. I also think that the last part is because he is never really commited to anything, so even thou people get really excited with him at the begining, he creates a distance between he and everyone else, so he ends up fading away in his friendships; but not that he really cares, he's just trying to figure out whats important for him, so he doesnt mind disappearing in the crowd. I think its a song for all those moments we feel lost, we feel we need to get our $h!t together, os just figure out who we really are; for those moments we try to do something that really means for ourselves. At least that's how i feel about the song. It says we're all musicians at some point, trying to sing our hearts out, eve thou the crowd just treates you like ambient music, and so we need to keep on the road till we find whatever weve been looking for. |
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