Here's what the great Travis Morrsion says about this song...
"A couple of years ago, when I was 23/24, things got very interesting in my life. My dad, who was very important to me, passed away, and there was a host of other family craziness at the same time which is none of your business. I suppose it was what you could call character-building, and it had a really big effect on the lyrics I was writing. I suddenly became completely allergic to 99% of what constitutes punk and emo lyrics because they suddenly sounded hopelessly self-absorbed and adolescent and self-pitying.
"I started listening to old soul and country lyrics closely: Songs written for, by and about adults about family, community, trust, communication, and songs written with some sense of perspective and not from deep within one's own butt (the vantage point of most rock lyrics.) I also started appreciating songs that genuinely sounded like they wanted everything to be better, even if they couldn't be; let's face it, most punk and rock lyrics wallow in misery and heartbreak.
"A common trope of rock words is the celebration of the open road, of adventure, of individualism -- "Freebird" -- but it seems kind of rare that rock lyrics deal with the wages of adventure and individualism, especially when taken too far. That stuff has its price; everything has its price, actually, which is perhaps the single hardest lesson of growing up. I wanted to write a song about the price of running away, of changing one's environs continually, of declining to commit -- something that I see a lot in many of my peers, for whatever reason -- and so, voila."
I've noticed this tendency in myself sometimes, and putting this song on always seems to help...
Here's what the great Travis Morrsion says about this song...
"A couple of years ago, when I was 23/24, things got very interesting in my life. My dad, who was very important to me, passed away, and there was a host of other family craziness at the same time which is none of your business. I suppose it was what you could call character-building, and it had a really big effect on the lyrics I was writing. I suddenly became completely allergic to 99% of what constitutes punk and emo lyrics because they suddenly sounded hopelessly self-absorbed and adolescent and self-pitying.
"I started listening to old soul and country lyrics closely: Songs written for, by and about adults about family, community, trust, communication, and songs written with some sense of perspective and not from deep within one's own butt (the vantage point of most rock lyrics.) I also started appreciating songs that genuinely sounded like they wanted everything to be better, even if they couldn't be; let's face it, most punk and rock lyrics wallow in misery and heartbreak.
"A common trope of rock words is the celebration of the open road, of adventure, of individualism -- "Freebird" -- but it seems kind of rare that rock lyrics deal with the wages of adventure and individualism, especially when taken too far. That stuff has its price; everything has its price, actually, which is perhaps the single hardest lesson of growing up. I wanted to write a song about the price of running away, of changing one's environs continually, of declining to commit -- something that I see a lot in many of my peers, for whatever reason -- and so, voila."
I've noticed this tendency in myself sometimes, and putting this song on always seems to help...