It's about all the excesses in life, sin if you will. All good things must come to an end--"The Boss don't like these dizzy heights, we're busted in the blinding lights of closing time". The "Boss" (God/ our conscience/ our mortality) always seems to surface when we are enjoying overabundance. Reality and responsibility eventually set in, a similar feeling to when the lights go on in a bar after closing time; you realize the fun's over and it's time to go home. Or like a deer caught in the headlights--frozen for a moment not knowing what to do next.
At the beginning of the song he reflects on how life was all about drinking, dancing, sex and superficial beauty--and how much fun it was. Later in the song he's older and has been either unwilling or unable to change the direction his life was going, except now he knows "the awful truth" which is that despite all the fun to be had, he has lived a somewhat lonely and empty life.
It's about all the excesses in life, sin if you will. All good things must come to an end--"The Boss don't like these dizzy heights, we're busted in the blinding lights of closing time". The "Boss" (God/ our conscience/ our mortality) always seems to surface when we are enjoying overabundance. Reality and responsibility eventually set in, a similar feeling to when the lights go on in a bar after closing time; you realize the fun's over and it's time to go home. Or like a deer caught in the headlights--frozen for a moment not knowing what to do next. At the beginning of the song he reflects on how life was all about drinking, dancing, sex and superficial beauty--and how much fun it was. Later in the song he's older and has been either unwilling or unable to change the direction his life was going, except now he knows "the awful truth" which is that despite all the fun to be had, he has lived a somewhat lonely and empty life.
This makes the best sense to me. +++ RJ
This makes the best sense to me. +++ RJ