I can't believe this has been around soooo long and only a few here have seemed to have come close to the real heart of this song. I too signed up just to comment on this one.
"Sarcastic feeling" only begins to explain the meaning here. It was quite obvious to me first listen that this song is about a false dream. The people of this country are conditioned for the most part to conform and work hard so they can eventually grow out of their modest neighborhood and move into a new modest neighborhood and raise their own family there. They are thus perpetuating a cycle which feeds the machine and doesn't necessarily serve any meaning or purpose other than falling under the power of others and forgetting their own path in life. We see this happening again and again to people all around us, going down that "Same 'Ol Road Again", many of them not even realizing the conformity and brainwashing they're being subject to.
This song confronts the reality and blandness that is the majority of america (or at least middle class america). You already know everything about this path, why are you so eager to take it?
I can't believe this has been around soooo long and only a few here have seemed to have come close to the real heart of this song. I too signed up just to comment on this one.
"Sarcastic feeling" only begins to explain the meaning here. It was quite obvious to me first listen that this song is about a false dream. The people of this country are conditioned for the most part to conform and work hard so they can eventually grow out of their modest neighborhood and move into a new modest neighborhood and raise their own family there. They are thus perpetuating a cycle which feeds the machine and doesn't necessarily serve any meaning or purpose other than falling under the power of others and forgetting their own path in life. We see this happening again and again to people all around us, going down that "Same 'Ol Road Again", many of them not even realizing the conformity and brainwashing they're being subject to.
This song confronts the reality and blandness that is the majority of america (or at least middle class america). You already know everything about this path, why are you so eager to take it?