This song is very disturbing to me. The video is very disturbing. Simon has described it as a "modern ghost story" and about "being haunted from the inside". I think it's clearly about someone who is traumatized by a person in their past and is trying to push this person out of their mind but as hard as they try, the memory is still there in "the back of [their] mind". Well, yeah, that's obvious. This guy is thinking about how much pain this person has caused him and how much it is still apart of his life and he's wondering if this person he is obsessing over feels the same way---regret, remorse, shame, etc---or if not and if there's some utter callousness about it all. It reminds me of Careless Memories. And comparing it to that song, it makes me think about how the mere mention of a name can hold so much power. Just like certain things can trigger painful memories.
This song is very disturbing to me. The video is very disturbing. Simon has described it as a "modern ghost story" and about "being haunted from the inside". I think it's clearly about someone who is traumatized by a person in their past and is trying to push this person out of their mind but as hard as they try, the memory is still there in "the back of [their] mind". Well, yeah, that's obvious. This guy is thinking about how much pain this person has caused him and how much it is still apart of his life and he's wondering if this person he is obsessing over feels the same way---regret, remorse, shame, etc---or if not and if there's some utter callousness about it all. It reminds me of Careless Memories. And comparing it to that song, it makes me think about how the mere mention of a name can hold so much power. Just like certain things can trigger painful memories.