@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Written by Warren Zevon 1993 Zevon Music BMI
Time marches on
Time stands still
Time on my hands
Time to kill
Blood on my hands
And my hands in the till
Down at the 7-11
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times when I was happy
Same old sun
Same old moon
It's the same old story
Same old tune
They all say
Someday soon
My sins will all be forgiven
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
They say "Everything's all right"
They say "Better days are near"
They tell us "These are the good times"
But they don't live around here
Billy and Christie don't--
Bruce and Patti don't--
They don't live around here
I had a girl
Now she's gone
She left town
Town burned down
Nothing left
But the sound
Of the front door closing forever
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
Time marches on
Time stands still
Time on my hands
Time to kill
Blood on my hands
And my hands in the till
Down at the 7-11
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times when I was happy
Same old sun
Same old moon
It's the same old story
Same old tune
They all say
Someday soon
My sins will all be forgiven
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
They say "Everything's all right"
They say "Better days are near"
They tell us "These are the good times"
But they don't live around here
Billy and Christie don't--
Bruce and Patti don't--
They don't live around here
I had a girl
Now she's gone
She left town
Town burned down
Nothing left
But the sound
Of the front door closing forever
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
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Its about loss and a man contemplating his mortality. Heaven doesn't give a flip. Girl leaves, black mood sets in... But he's also contemplating how short and meaningless life can be... Warren often sings about death...and mortality. Life ain't always pretty.
I love the line about the 7-11. Warren never shyed away from incorporating lyrics that are undeniably modern into his work. Certain writers, even ones I love, like Bob Dylan, in an effort to be timeless, will be impressionistic and try to write songs that could have been written 300 years ago or 300 years from now. Warren's songs have a very acute awareness of his place not only geographically, but of this moment in time as well, and that's just one of many rare treats his music has to offer.
Possibly my favorite. I think WZ is talking about how short life is, but how life carries on. We may lose a loved one to death, but that only affects us, and not the rest of the world.
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Billy & Christie = Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley Bruce & Patti = Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
He looks at life and loss really broadly here - all life folds back into the sea - and yet there\'s a social context. Bruce might sing his uplifting songs but his life is different from that of the poor, whose suffering just goes on and on. Heartbreaking.
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When my partner was dying of cancer last year, especially during the last couple months when it was obvious she wasn't going to make it, this song was playing on almost endless loop in my mind...especially the third verse, and the lines about "the front door closing forever".
I remember the night the ambulance came because she'd stopped breathing. As they loaded her up on the stretcher and got her out of there, I remember those few lines playing in my head over and over again, all through the drive to the hospital and the wait and when I was brought in to see the body for the last time. I will never be able to hear this song without going back to those moments. And sometimes, that's all right.
@justkelly very nice memory...
arooj!,I totally love this song! I actually don't think this song is about stalkers or anything, rather about everyone around Daniel and the rest of the band at the time after Frogstomp was released. Tey became famous and therefore people acted differently towards them and this was Daniel's response. He's mainly angry and depressed. He doesn't really care aobut life and wouldn't mind dying. |
arooj!,I totally love this song! I actually don't think this song is about stalkers or anything, rather about everyone around Daniel and the rest of the band at the time after Frogstomp was released. Tey became famous and therefore people acted differently towards them and this was Daniel's response. He's mainly angry and depressed. He doesn't really care aobut life and wouldn't mind dying. |
@arooj This is about Warren Zevon. No one named Daniel or Frogstamp.