My favourite on the album. To me he's talking about visiting an old friend in DC. Someone he used to be very close to. But now the friend has new friends and they've grown apart and he doesn't feel apart of things anymore with the new friends and the apartment and ect. And he is very humble and explains how he finally realizes how it was worth leaving.
My interpretation is similar to yours, except I think this song is telling a story about an ex. It sounds like him and his girlfriend broke up, and they lived together, and this is his first time seeing her at her new apartment (you seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex; a stranger with a door key).
That could be why he says hes just visiting (which is different from before when neither of them was visiting one another if they lived together) and also how is is not permanent, which he once could have believed it...
My interpretation is similar to yours, except I think this song is telling a story about an ex. It sounds like him and his girlfriend broke up, and they lived together, and this is his first time seeing her at her new apartment (you seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex; a stranger with a door key).
That could be why he says hes just visiting (which is different from before when neither of them was visiting one another if they lived together) and also how is is not permanent, which he once could have believed it was.
Maybe for sometime he believed that it was the girls fault that they broke up, but now he can actually see that he was the one with leaving.
I don't think he was actually referring to the city of DC as where he was visting a friend.... I think DC represents the changes taking place in the person or group he is observing along side himself in the song... DC is the capital of our nation and therefor representative of a whole lot of change in our government and society... He is talking about a very superficial change taking place... DC is an epicenter for this kind of change in our nation that leaves people feeling alienated from their own country sometimes... Just as he is feeling alienated...
I don't think he was actually referring to the city of DC as where he was visting a friend.... I think DC represents the changes taking place in the person or group he is observing along side himself in the song... DC is the capital of our nation and therefor representative of a whole lot of change in our government and society... He is talking about a very superficial change taking place... DC is an epicenter for this kind of change in our nation that leaves people feeling alienated from their own country sometimes... Just as he is feeling alienated from something he obviously used to be close to... I don't think he was actually referring to visting a friend in this city.... Think symbolism.
My favourite on the album. To me he's talking about visiting an old friend in DC. Someone he used to be very close to. But now the friend has new friends and they've grown apart and he doesn't feel apart of things anymore with the new friends and the apartment and ect. And he is very humble and explains how he finally realizes how it was worth leaving.
My interpretation is similar to yours, except I think this song is telling a story about an ex. It sounds like him and his girlfriend broke up, and they lived together, and this is his first time seeing her at her new apartment (you seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex; a stranger with a door key). That could be why he says hes just visiting (which is different from before when neither of them was visiting one another if they lived together) and also how is is not permanent, which he once could have believed it...
My interpretation is similar to yours, except I think this song is telling a story about an ex. It sounds like him and his girlfriend broke up, and they lived together, and this is his first time seeing her at her new apartment (you seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex; a stranger with a door key). That could be why he says hes just visiting (which is different from before when neither of them was visiting one another if they lived together) and also how is is not permanent, which he once could have believed it was.
Maybe for sometime he believed that it was the girls fault that they broke up, but now he can actually see that he was the one with leaving.
Either way, its such a great song.
I don't think he was actually referring to the city of DC as where he was visting a friend.... I think DC represents the changes taking place in the person or group he is observing along side himself in the song... DC is the capital of our nation and therefor representative of a whole lot of change in our government and society... He is talking about a very superficial change taking place... DC is an epicenter for this kind of change in our nation that leaves people feeling alienated from their own country sometimes... Just as he is feeling alienated...
I don't think he was actually referring to the city of DC as where he was visting a friend.... I think DC represents the changes taking place in the person or group he is observing along side himself in the song... DC is the capital of our nation and therefor representative of a whole lot of change in our government and society... He is talking about a very superficial change taking place... DC is an epicenter for this kind of change in our nation that leaves people feeling alienated from their own country sometimes... Just as he is feeling alienated from something he obviously used to be close to... I don't think he was actually referring to visting a friend in this city.... Think symbolism.