I think the song is about wanting something you can't have and everything around you reminds you of it.
1 Stanza- if you read over it, it's metaphors for emptiness: lights flickering in the opposite hall, the heat pipes are making noise, and the country music station. Country music is mostly sad and depressing; when he says there's nothing to turn off, he means there's nothing that he hasn't heard or felt for himself.
2 Stanza- The girls playing blindman's bluff is kind of like the women are just playing around with men without the men knowing it, so in a way they're blind. He refers to Louise as the mirror. When he looks at her, he see's his misery in her because she reminds him of Johanna. Electricy is powerful and something hard to explain. He can't really explain the look on Louise's face.
3 Stanza- He's talking to Johanna's boyfriend and everytime he mentions her to him he trys to change the subject. He's useless to him.
4 Stanza- the museum is his memories. Johanna makes his good times hurt to remember.
5 Stanza- People let go of the things they once loved, and it's upsetting. "The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain." Music takes you anywhere you want to go and it controls the way you feel sometimes, but really the memory of Johanna is all that he has left.
i think by "nothing to turn off" he means the music is playing in his head, haunting him. he can't just turn off a radio. just a small thought about what you had to say :)
i think by "nothing to turn off" he means the music is playing in his head, haunting him. he can't just turn off a radio. just a small thought about what you had to say :)
I think the song is about wanting something you can't have and everything around you reminds you of it.
1 Stanza- if you read over it, it's metaphors for emptiness: lights flickering in the opposite hall, the heat pipes are making noise, and the country music station. Country music is mostly sad and depressing; when he says there's nothing to turn off, he means there's nothing that he hasn't heard or felt for himself.
2 Stanza- The girls playing blindman's bluff is kind of like the women are just playing around with men without the men knowing it, so in a way they're blind. He refers to Louise as the mirror. When he looks at her, he see's his misery in her because she reminds him of Johanna. Electricy is powerful and something hard to explain. He can't really explain the look on Louise's face.
3 Stanza- He's talking to Johanna's boyfriend and everytime he mentions her to him he trys to change the subject. He's useless to him.
4 Stanza- the museum is his memories. Johanna makes his good times hurt to remember.
5 Stanza- People let go of the things they once loved, and it's upsetting. "The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain." Music takes you anywhere you want to go and it controls the way you feel sometimes, but really the memory of Johanna is all that he has left.
-increase the peace
i think by "nothing to turn off" he means the music is playing in his head, haunting him. he can't just turn off a radio. just a small thought about what you had to say :)
i think by "nothing to turn off" he means the music is playing in his head, haunting him. he can't just turn off a radio. just a small thought about what you had to say :)
@skakayla Little boy lost imo is self referential. It has nothing to do with Johanna's :boyfriend". In this song the inner and outer are one.
@skakayla Little boy lost imo is self referential. It has nothing to do with Johanna's :boyfriend". In this song the inner and outer are one.