brilliant band. see them live. tim kinsella is absolutely insane. Such talented guys. The drummer actually plays the keyboard while drumming during this song. Anyway, this song seems to be about growing up with such confidence in your abilities instilled in you by the compliments of the adults around you that you don't apply yourself to your full potential.
i.e. "you really could've been as good kid, as you were before anyone ever told you that you were any good." Pretty much sums it up, I think. And "waiting only to betray my own monument." The monument being the image of him his parents/teachers have created that he won't live up to.
Or maybe I'm just projecting my own life on the song...
brilliant band. see them live. tim kinsella is absolutely insane. Such talented guys. The drummer actually plays the keyboard while drumming during this song. Anyway, this song seems to be about growing up with such confidence in your abilities instilled in you by the compliments of the adults around you that you don't apply yourself to your full potential.
i.e. "you really could've been as good kid, as you were before anyone ever told you that you were any good." Pretty much sums it up, I think. And "waiting only to betray my own monument." The monument being the image of him his parents/teachers have created that he won't live up to.
Or maybe I'm just projecting my own life on the song...