This song's one of the best Statistics songs to me. It's being nostalgic about past experiences, perhaps old summers that lasted forever or ex-lovers, through remembering the development of popular technology, which is probably the most defining part of the 80s and 90s, the decades Denver would have grown up and had his adolescence in.
'Let's go back in time... let's just press rewind' says it all really. Don't we all want to do that sometimes, and relive our younger years over and over again?
The idea behind the lyrics is very simple, and normally I'm not a fan of songs like that, but there's something overwhelmingly individual about this one, and all of Denver's other songs, where he's picking up on the seemingly random situations we all face personally and taking an in-depth look at them. Rather than making a sweeping generalisation about a large concept, he takes a snapshot of something little and defines it completely.
But our emotions are never completely possible to define.
This song's one of the best Statistics songs to me. It's being nostalgic about past experiences, perhaps old summers that lasted forever or ex-lovers, through remembering the development of popular technology, which is probably the most defining part of the 80s and 90s, the decades Denver would have grown up and had his adolescence in.
'Let's go back in time... let's just press rewind' says it all really. Don't we all want to do that sometimes, and relive our younger years over and over again?
The idea behind the lyrics is very simple, and normally I'm not a fan of songs like that, but there's something overwhelmingly individual about this one, and all of Denver's other songs, where he's picking up on the seemingly random situations we all face personally and taking an in-depth look at them. Rather than making a sweeping generalisation about a large concept, he takes a snapshot of something little and defines it completely.
But our emotions are never completely possible to define.
Refreshingly simple and incredibly beautiful. :)