Sun Shower

Here's my take...

Here's my take...

I've always thought of this song as a couple fresh out of art school trying to find jobs in a market that is already flooded with a ton of equally talented (if not more talented) artists. They are reasonably intelligent and are (at first) confident in their ability and their creativity. However, some time passes with little or no success for either of them. I think the singer is then starting to question the realistic possibility that his career choice is not practical for existence in the monetary world.

I've always thought of this song as a couple fresh out of art school trying to find jobs in a market that is already flooded with a ton of equally talented (if not more talented) artists. They are reasonably intelligent and are (at first) confident in their ability and their creativity. However, some time passes with little or no success for either of them. I think the singer is then starting to question the realistic possibility that his career choice is not practical for existence in the monetary world.

However, the person he's talking to in the...

However, the person he's talking to in the song is possibly from a middle-upper or upper class family, and she has something to fall back upon (most likely her parents) if she can't find decent work as an artist for a while. However, the singer (possibly from a lower-class family) doesn't have anything to fall back upon, and is not afforded this luxury. [I've always though he'd been saying "NO place for me" until I saw these lyrics, but it still sound like "no" to me rather than "and" and it makes a LOT more sense given the other lyrics]

It seems to me that he tries to explain the nature of the art scene with her, with an ever-increasing realistic outlook. It seems the scene is full of stereotypical, characterless artists who are gaining all the popularity and success. As the song goes on it seems that he is noticing she's selling out to the genre and becoming like everyone else (the well-groomed yuppie scum who are as "wack as hell"). By the end of the song, he becomes more and more irritated at the state of the field, and is still unwilling to compromise his own style and beliefs for popularity and success, culminating in his abandonment of her and/or the art scene.

Pretty straight forward, I know, but this is a great song, and given the state of how things are in that field right now (and btw by "artist" in my explanation I mean any sort of artistic career), highly realistic.

The song is terribly sad.

The song is terribly sad.

In actuality, it's in reference to a relationship where both people have similar interests, but for different reasons.

In actuality, it's in reference to a relationship where both people have similar interests, but for different reasons.

The person he's talking to is looking for themselves in that high fashion/hipster society; slumming to try and find some sort of truth, involving themselves in an ostensible art community, listening to trend before sound, etc.

The person he's talking to is looking for themselves in that high fashion/hipster society; slumming to try and find some sort of truth, involving themselves in an ostensible art community, listening to trend before sound, etc.

"Taxidermy for the nouveau riche"--I've always loved this line. Think of the dancing bear on stage dead and stuffed for the new rich to admire as a statement against Old Money. This line illustrates the hypocrisy in the "change the...

"Taxidermy for the nouveau riche"--I've always loved this line. Think of the dancing bear on stage dead and stuffed for the new rich to admire as a statement against Old Money. This line illustrates the hypocrisy in the "change the world" heart of the yuppie M.O. They all fall into the bourgeois mentality and become counterrevolutionary, spending their money on frivolous bullshit they'd like to call artistic, and "saving" communities by gentrifying them.

Busdriver doesn't want to associate himself with that movement, he doesn't need it.

Sunshowers. Natural. That's the only place left he can think of where they'll be compatible. For now, she returns to the soiree with the showy Warhol clones, and he'll stay looking for his truth in what's left of honest passion.