When I first came out of the closet, I made it my life mission to look for songs that best describe what I was feeling...no other song best describes that than this one. It ROCKS!
Basically, the song is about a gay person's life and how he/she yearns for the world to understand his/her life. The Indigo Girls are speaking in behalf of the the gay peeps when they wrote this song, and it has now become my personal anthem to anyone who's opposed to, or are continuously questioning, my life .
Let's break it down by stanza:
1.Basically,the person in this stanza (who happens to be gay) is saying that he has taken his life more seriously, simply because of al the homophobia, ignorance and gay hate crimes.
Brilliant description of being in the closet--hiding (darkness is a hunger, meaning you get used to the false comfort of pretending you're not gay) your true sexuality and negelceting the urgency of coming out (light has a call that's hard to hear), feeling "safe" till you can't take the pretence anymore (till I sank it ), being contrlled by fear (wrapped around you like a blanket)----sad but true, and extremely well thought of.
3,5,7.You know how some people actully try and find WHY some people are gay? This stanza says---"WHO CARES??"---People looked for answers everywhere; doctors, preachers, the bible---they searched high and low for causes and the moral implications---but if the world just focuses A LOT LESS on the why's and how's and just let us live our life the same way straight people do, then the closer we'll all be to inner and outer peace.
I think the gay persona was consulting an elderly gay person who had it tough; he knew exactly what the person was going through, and can even see through his pretensions and lies. And the singer learned so much from him that he decided to come out---and because of that, he felt free.
This one is more literal; the dperession of being in a closet has taken a toll on him, and he now wants to find solace---that's is EXTREMELY hard to do. :)
When I first came out of the closet, I made it my life mission to look for songs that best describe what I was feeling...no other song best describes that than this one. It ROCKS!
Basically, the song is about a gay person's life and how he/she yearns for the world to understand his/her life. The Indigo Girls are speaking in behalf of the the gay peeps when they wrote this song, and it has now become my personal anthem to anyone who's opposed to, or are continuously questioning, my life .
Let's break it down by stanza: 1.Basically,the person in this stanza (who happens to be gay) is saying that he has taken his life more seriously, simply because of al the homophobia, ignorance and gay hate crimes.
3,5,7.You know how some people actully try and find WHY some people are gay? This stanza says---"WHO CARES??"---People looked for answers everywhere; doctors, preachers, the bible---they searched high and low for causes and the moral implications---but if the world just focuses A LOT LESS on the why's and how's and just let us live our life the same way straight people do, then the closer we'll all be to inner and outer peace.
God, I love this song. Indigo Girls ROCK!!