| Grandaddy – The Final Push to the Sum Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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'Here at the final push to the sum' is ambiguous, but I'll give it a go. 'Sum' in this context is more likely to mean 'final answer' or 'total' than its purely mathematical meaning. 'Here' suggests that where he is now, either physically or mentally, is somewhere focused on achieving a goal. The 'final push' indicates that this goal is or has been nearly in reach, and yet the narrator doesn't seem to have reached it. The following 'what have I become' indicates that in his rush to move on, to complete whatever goal he has set, he has lost himself in the process. I keep coming back to this song because that 'sum' can be left up to the listener to project their own meaning onto. At one time, it was completing teacher training, when I felt I had been locked away and stressed and rushed for so long that I had rotted internally, somehow. Another time it was the hurry to re-invent myself after a break-up. Either way, anyone who has rushed to find a completion, an answer, an ending - whatever - and stopped to find themselves adrift can probably relate. |
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