Has This Hit

On his Zoo Kid bandcamp site, Archy says this about another song: "NOTE TO LISTENER: Perspectives change throughout." And I think that's true with a lot of his songs, including this one. A lot of times he seems to alternately address a girl who's usually called Blue or Baby Blue, or just Guuurl :) , and at other times he bitterly addresses some sort of controlling authority figure he seems to despise, like in the lines: "I don't deserve history repeating itself/ always see myself getting picked up and left back on the shelf" and "you're not my pen, you're my paper/ you're not my heart, you're its breaker." Anyway, this song overall just seems to express his feelings of futility about life and possibly also his hope that the girl can help lift him out of those negative feelings that are dogging him.

"Another disappointed soul Well I try I try to keep it in control Well I I will end up on the dole It's my life And now fall into it I go

Well Blue, you've got me on the go So don't worry You'll never know Your eyes Are never cold To me Well at least that's what I was told"

I feel like this is Archy's essential break up song. In the first two verses, he summarizes his relationship with this Blue girl, it's a constantly changing and hectic one, and Archy is finding himself disappointed as he realizes that it's spiraling into something out of his grasp. He's doing all he can to save this relationship and keep her with him, but even he's beginning to doubt if he loves her anymore -- "your eyes are never cold to me, at least that's what I'm told."

"Girl You made My dreams come true It's all a clue It's all for you

Myself is still eighteen In cue And it's all That I want to do"

I love the emotion in his voice in these verses, as well as the ones that follow them. He sounds so distressed and angry, bitterly singing about how Blue used to make his dreams come true. He's tried and tried to stay with her, but this is his final clue that maybe things are really done. Whether or not it's her fault or his, he doesn't say, but he brings up his youth as a sort of defense, trying to excuse his mistakes.

"I know when I look into the sky There is no meaning And I'm the only one believing That there's nothing to believe in

I'm dreaming My aspirations got a ceiling And now I'm constantly cleaning The skies you're dealing"

Definitely my favourite part of the song. Archy feels no emotion when he sees something beautiful, like the sky. He feels empty, almost nihilistic, claiming that there's nothing to believe in, and he feels alone in this philosophy, and even when thinking about his future and his dreams, he sets limits for himself, and refuses to allow his hopes to get too high. And Blue, this girl, is dealing skies, much like the sky that Archy finds no beauty in, as well as the one that relates to this saying: "the sky's the limit." At one point, Blue made him feel like anything was possible, like he could accomplish whatever he wanted, but now that they've been torn apart, Archy's cleaning out all those ideas of optimism that she left in his head.

"Well my guts are on the floor For you to adore me And all I can be"

This is a good summation of the last few very personal verses. Archy has finally admitted all of this, and perhaps, despite the bitterness and the doubt and the hate, he still craves the feelings Blue gave him, and hopes that somehow, she will hear him spilling his guts about her, and see he still has feelings about her, and just maybe, she might return them.

I'm pretty sure the last half changes perspective to a grander scale, but keeps within the theme of feelings of betrayal and loss and general dislike of everybody around him.