Wrecking Ball Lyrics

Lyric discussion by inteleckshual 

Cover art for Wrecking Ball lyrics by Harvey Danger

I'm not sure of the exact meaning for most of this song, but I'll start with the first line."Tear down the bearing wall" seems to be refering to having someone take away your support. The bit on the window and burnt sienna would be like someone making you see things for how they really are after taking away your support. Since the colors are refered to as 'bastard colors' it doesn't seem like the outlook is too good. "Put down the wrecking ball" could mean stop destoying your life or stop destoying my life. "Who has a friend, who needs one?" confuses me. I don't know if it's meant to say that they have no need for a friend or that they would be willing to be anyones friend. After that most of the meaning escapes me. "Liberties I've taken take me nowhere." could mean in a literal sense that all of the benefits they took for themselves are doing nothing for them. "Put down the wrecking ball Don't let a childhood linger" seems to be refering to someone other then the speaker in which case the speaker is saying to stop destroying your life as you try to relive the past. I take "Burn down the house Make sure the family is inside Nothing more to tether you Also no one there to catch you crying" literally and can relate to it well in wanting to lose the responsibilities bestowed by others and yet wanting them to remain in your life in a certain sense. "Every mess i make i make a run from nowhere Nowhere follows you" seems to say that the speaker is destroying their own life to follow someone else who is also destroying their life.