Over And Done With

who cares what it was about, it was awesome when it was used in "bottle rocket"

This is an amazing song. I LOVE The Proclaimers. I think this particular song has to do with things not mattering so much in the long run. it's all over so what's the point in lingering on a subject?

i think the trinity mentioned refers to the holy trinity or the father, the son, and the holy spirit. hah, but the three-way thing crossed my mind too. i agree with pro-voice, though. i think he compromised his dignity and faith perhaps for something that didn't really mean anything in the long run.

I adore this song. One of my favourites ever! The theme to this song is how everyone should live their life. In the end, it doesn't matter so much. Let the past be as it is and come back a few years later to laugh at that crazy teacher that we only hated because it was our goal in life to make her life a living hell. I bet they had fun in school.

I'm honestly not sure if I would like this song so much if I hadn't heard it on Bottle Rocket first. Am I so vain? Regardless, here are my impressions of the song:

The first stanza regards either his first teacher or his first sex partner (I feel like I've read the second interpretation somewhere else). The next regards when he becomes a man, i.e. loses his virginity. The last is when someone dies.

If you accept the latter interpretation of the first stanza, the first two stanzas are inherently related. The third might only make sense if the man dying is himself (losing your virginity supposedly makes you a man, whereas watching the same man dying would contravene that notion). That these events "didn't make the impression that some people say" indicates that losing his virginity wasn't as special as he had imagined-perhaps that's how the man he becomes has died.

If you accept the former, all three tie together as a progression from learning facts (school) to learning love, to learning death. Or, birth, life/love, and death.

When he says "my bed hold a trinity" I for some reason imagined that the brothers lost their virginity in a three-way, but that's kinda twisted, isn't it...