This is probably my favorite song of all time. I'm of two minds about this song. On one hand it's about a guy who's screwing up his life and is tired of his girlfriend lecturing him and in turn, his girlfirend is tired too and is leaving him. So the song is a bitter tirade about how the main character doesn't actually need people but rather just shelter and a telephone and he'll be fine and how you can keep telling yourself that things will improve but they never will and it will just make you crazy and fill you with false hope. Just accept what you've got and move along.
My other mind says that it's about a guy who WAS messed up but met this amazing person who helped him get back on track starting small (a place to call his own, etc..). Though this person may have lost all his old friends and everything he used to have it really dosn't matter because he has this great person and life can surely only get better from here. The last line is a throwback to his old friends who were also messed up but keep saying they'll get better but they never will. I like this interpretation better.
This is probably my favorite song of all time. I'm of two minds about this song. On one hand it's about a guy who's screwing up his life and is tired of his girlfriend lecturing him and in turn, his girlfirend is tired too and is leaving him. So the song is a bitter tirade about how the main character doesn't actually need people but rather just shelter and a telephone and he'll be fine and how you can keep telling yourself that things will improve but they never will and it will just make you crazy and fill you with false hope. Just accept what you've got and move along.
My other mind says that it's about a guy who WAS messed up but met this amazing person who helped him get back on track starting small (a place to call his own, etc..). Though this person may have lost all his old friends and everything he used to have it really dosn't matter because he has this great person and life can surely only get better from here. The last line is a throwback to his old friends who were also messed up but keep saying they'll get better but they never will. I like this interpretation better.