Tracy Jacks

A lot of the interpretations of the song have been kind of negative (i.e. he's having a breakdown), and I think they're all valid really, but I choose to look at it positively.

I usually think of "Tracy Jacks" as being an uplifting song about a bloke who got tired of life as it was and decided to break free by totally letting go (getting naked and bulldozing his house).

Him bulldozing his own house and saying "I'd love to stay here and be normal/But it was always overrated" is a declaration - he's starting over, and sometimes destruction is needed for a new start.

I think this song is basically the fear of getting past an age where you dont feel like you've got much choice left in the course your life is going to take.

The person in the song appears to have a sort of beakdown about losing that control over his life that he had when he was younger. He realises that life probably wont (or cant) change much now and its sort of a reaction to that- to getting older and accepting your life is headed in a certain direction. Its maybe about losing that essence of free spirit and suddenly realising you are part of the rat race and pretty much stuck there

I think this song is about someone who is made neurasthenic by the preasure of everyday life .Also he longs for the freedom in heart. He was so depressed that he could no more restrain and did something astonishing.(bulldoze down his house)It's just a classical modern character who is taken over by the nervous life style.It's a product of industrialization.The nervousness brews the paranoid which turn out to cause him to destroy the acheivement he tried every effort to make. A man with immaculate outlook and good status but hopeless in mind.

By far and away their greatest song. Interestingly, said to be based on The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.

I think this song is based on the day in the life of an ordinary person with an ordinary job who realises everything he has been striving for or lives for is overrated. I think it's Damon's way of saying how what the majority of people in the UK "supposedly want", i.e a white collar job, a nice house and maybe a nice car is overrated.

To me, this seems like just a play by play on Tracy's day in the life. I think the key to the meaning, however, is shown in the chorus. Though the first two lines are pretty ambiguous ("Everyday he got closer/He knew in his heart he was over") the second two lines have some substantial meaning for us all ("I'd love to stay here and be normal/But it was always overrated")

i think it may be about how evry one who lives a normal life dreams of something better something that isnt just the evry day normal, but knows at the same time that this goal is proberbly un reachable

I think it's about a man who wan't something else in his life something new but he is getting old and it's now or never. "but he's getting past forty"
But then on a tuesday he finally decides to change his life. "And then it happened on a tuesday morning Tracy Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in Saying it's just so overrated"

This is pretty much THE classic blur song.

teapot totally said it