Like Altman's "Short Cuts", this song gives random glimpses into random people's lives, which are connected only geographically or by single links, starting with someone whose car has been stolen, through someone staring into the window of a restaurant watching someone who's eating in there, through soldiers in a war zone, and someone illegally immigrating into America. I love the range of human experience that this song manages to squeeze in in a sequence of short, random images. The basic message IMHO is that everyone is just trying to get on with their life and make it through, in different ways, so people need to stop fighting with each other when we're all just in the same boat, as Angelbabe said above.
Like Altman's "Short Cuts", this song gives random glimpses into random people's lives, which are connected only geographically or by single links, starting with someone whose car has been stolen, through someone staring into the window of a restaurant watching someone who's eating in there, through soldiers in a war zone, and someone illegally immigrating into America. I love the range of human experience that this song manages to squeeze in in a sequence of short, random images. The basic message IMHO is that everyone is just trying to get on with their life and make it through, in different ways, so people need to stop fighting with each other when we're all just in the same boat, as Angelbabe said above.