We Will Still Need A Song

I am going to with improvised on this one. I saw Hawksley live and he explained that this song was written about one drunken night. I am paraphrasing her but he said he was fed up with the world's injustices and didn't see the point in making music anymore. Making music seemed trivial when he looked at the bigger picture. But his friend convinced him that music, song and celebration were important and that music plays a role in sweetening our world. What's the use in fighting and advocating for a world that isn't pleasant to live in? Then this song was born.

i dont get this song?

by the way i dont go on these things at 12 AM like it says i do. its only like 430 pm here.

i think this song is about how a lot of music today is really loud and angry sounding, and the culture connected to the music is about getting drunk and fucked up, and hawksley is saying okay, you're sad but get over yourself "you're not the only one that feels like that now". he's saying musicians should express themselves in positive ways, "modern music should be a healing sound", and we will always need love songs: "we will still need a song to carry our hearts away... we will still need a song to dance on our wedding day". at least thats what it means to me.

Hawksley wrote this song after one night of drinking. He was feeling really terrible about the world around him, and told his friend that he was done with music. The friend turned to him and said "Yeah, but we will still need a song" This seems to be a song about pushing past feeling apathetic, and creating something beautiful.

Sure this song points out that modern music isn't all that it could be that is not what the song is all about, it is more or less despite everything negative or wrong that in life you may try to change it all doesn't matter because you just need that song to carry you away.

I didn't really think of that as the main point. I figured that it was about a girlfriend that he's fighting with as they're both drunk (probably because whenever I get drunk I act tough and later get sad). I thought that they still needed a song, because even though they fight, they're still in love, hence the "to dance on our wedding day". I'm probably terribly wrong, but that's what the piece means to me at least. Beautiful and catchy, no matter what the main point.