Apparently "Gardening At Night" was, according to Michael the first "proper" song REM wrote. Gardening at Night is a metaphor for working for something unattainable, doing a pointless chore. I read somewhere that Peter Buck once had a neighbour with this unusual habit!
@driver08uk I think that means that "gardening at night" is a very universal metaphor for everyone in the world working towards things in their lives blindly in the dark, not knowing what's really going on or what the point of it all is, when all of the work is actually going towards making the very few psychotically rich people even richer. "Somewhere it must be time for penitence" therefore refers to the fact that there will come a time that those psychotically rich people will have to finally repent for exploiting humanity to such an insane extent or face the...
@driver08uk I think that means that "gardening at night" is a very universal metaphor for everyone in the world working towards things in their lives blindly in the dark, not knowing what's really going on or what the point of it all is, when all of the work is actually going towards making the very few psychotically rich people even richer. "Somewhere it must be time for penitence" therefore refers to the fact that there will come a time that those psychotically rich people will have to finally repent for exploiting humanity to such an insane extent or face the consequences, though I bet it's actually far too late for that and they've long forfeited their chances to make good with God
Apparently "Gardening At Night" was, according to Michael the first "proper" song REM wrote. Gardening at Night is a metaphor for working for something unattainable, doing a pointless chore. I read somewhere that Peter Buck once had a neighbour with this unusual habit!
@driver08uk I think that means that "gardening at night" is a very universal metaphor for everyone in the world working towards things in their lives blindly in the dark, not knowing what's really going on or what the point of it all is, when all of the work is actually going towards making the very few psychotically rich people even richer. "Somewhere it must be time for penitence" therefore refers to the fact that there will come a time that those psychotically rich people will have to finally repent for exploiting humanity to such an insane extent or face the...
@driver08uk I think that means that "gardening at night" is a very universal metaphor for everyone in the world working towards things in their lives blindly in the dark, not knowing what's really going on or what the point of it all is, when all of the work is actually going towards making the very few psychotically rich people even richer. "Somewhere it must be time for penitence" therefore refers to the fact that there will come a time that those psychotically rich people will have to finally repent for exploiting humanity to such an insane extent or face the consequences, though I bet it's actually far too late for that and they've long forfeited their chances to make good with God