I love this song to pieces. So much so that I watched the video over and over and wrote down some of the things that come on the screen, but pass by so fats you can't read all of them. A few in particular were interesting to me...
"Pat,
Couldn't sleep again last
night. It's been like that
lately. don't know why
really. Haven't really been
bothered by it for a while,
so it's back to the ceiling
watch and the numbers
and the remembrances of
faces that I've lost. Why
do I do that do you
suppose? Just like I think
of you."
"When you're at the top there's nowhere left to go but
down. That's been said in a million country songs. It's
true. As true for nations as it is for their citizens. For
when you are at the top you aspire to attain that which
cannot be attained. And in doing so achieve the ruin of
all that you have built."
"Pat,
There's no way to know where to go from here. It
seems to me I've been thinking about it all these
years you've been gone, like there was some big
mystery out there coming for me. But the longer I
sit here and wait for it the more I realize that it's
never going to come. That it was up to me to go
and dispel the myth of it myself. But having
realized that, It's like my feet are stuck in cement
and I can't move. You know Chris has kids now, a
boy and a girl and you'd love them. Tamer than we
were when we were little. I look at them and think
that maybe Chris had it figured out a long time ago.
That he went searching and figured out that there's
just some old man behind a curtian pulling ropes
and levers. Sometimes I want to ask him about it
but I can't bring myself to do it. What would he think
I wonder? Who would be the failure then?"
Anyone think that might have anything to do with the song?
I love this song to pieces. So much so that I watched the video over and over and wrote down some of the things that come on the screen, but pass by so fats you can't read all of them. A few in particular were interesting to me...
"Pat,
Couldn't sleep again last night. It's been like that lately. don't know why really. Haven't really been bothered by it for a while, so it's back to the ceiling watch and the numbers and the remembrances of faces that I've lost. Why do I do that do you suppose? Just like I think of you."
"When you're at the top there's nowhere left to go but down. That's been said in a million country songs. It's true. As true for nations as it is for their citizens. For when you are at the top you aspire to attain that which cannot be attained. And in doing so achieve the ruin of all that you have built."
"Pat,
There's no way to know where to go from here. It seems to me I've been thinking about it all these years you've been gone, like there was some big mystery out there coming for me. But the longer I sit here and wait for it the more I realize that it's never going to come. That it was up to me to go and dispel the myth of it myself. But having realized that, It's like my feet are stuck in cement and I can't move. You know Chris has kids now, a boy and a girl and you'd love them. Tamer than we were when we were little. I look at them and think that maybe Chris had it figured out a long time ago. That he went searching and figured out that there's just some old man behind a curtian pulling ropes and levers. Sometimes I want to ask him about it but I can't bring myself to do it. What would he think I wonder? Who would be the failure then?"
Anyone think that might have anything to do with the song?