Wrecking Yard

I guess this could be about a poor place. A place where people hang out. It is not the most beautiful place but it is home.

I guess this could be about a poor place. A place where people hang out. It is not the most beautiful place but it is home.

the wrecking yard could be a metaphor to a "place" inside a person's head where their bad memories are stored and must be wrecked and gotten rid of, forgotten. the person "walks through the wrecking yard"...aka strolls through memory lane and cannot let go of the horrible memories and is therefore depressed, living in their bad past. and they talk about it all the time (gather round to hear this tale, a story which has grown old)

I'm going to analyze this from a historical stand-point. I was thinking that this song could actually be about the halocaust. The Jews were stripped of everything. When discovered by Nazi police, they were to be imprisoned. "The Wrecking Yard" is life after being discovered. And the last four lines of the second verse is about all those that went to the gas chambers. People in that time believed that the only way to escape was death, so that's why they're dancing up above the sky, and the last of those four lines, "You'll see them asleep in the rain tonight" is supposed to represent the bodies after they've died and the fear that people have that they'll be next.

Maybe it's the first lines about stars crashing and colliding, but to me this song is about the 'use and throw away' method of Hollywood movie producers. Star gets to old, dump them. Get someone new, young, and fresh... send the old ones off to... the wrecking yard.