This is an all time favorite of mine. The lyrics are so cool and insightful. I guess it can be read many ways. I took it to mean two buddies who had everything when they were young, the world by the tail, but now there is a time a torture less sublime, our souls are locked and frozen. I believe it is about the potential, the beauty, the energy, the fearless and cocksure omnipotence of youth and it should last forever, yet it passes so quickly and you didn't find what you wanted for your life and now in your 30s (lol) or perhaps just say "older" our souls are locked and frozen, meaning that freespirited spontaniety has mileage and fear sets in due to the mistakes of youth when you dive into love and hit your head on concrete, or whatever the dreams and disappointments are, make you wary and nothing ventured nothing gained and so you become frozen. Getting older feels like being punished for a crime as you see the next generation take its reign of power and beauty, and so you look back and say it was the best years of our lives, and you still hope somehow you'll find "it" - my favorite lyric "the only game in town I'll turn the last card down and now the bank is broken" always gives me goosebumps because I think it is about that last grasp for real happiness be it true love, fame, power, etc., and now the bank is broken. Amazing and very overlooked song -
Not sure if I agree. I think it may be a lover from the past. Things were good then, but now they are not. The torture is in the lost love. Let me go is just that, move on, let me go.
Not sure if I agree. I think it may be a lover from the past. Things were good then, but now they are not. The torture is in the lost love. Let me go is just that, move on, let me go.
I've always seen this track as being about a couple who's relationship has obviously run it's course, but the protagonist in the song isn't strong enough to let go - even though they want to - and the other party won't let go.
I've always seen this track as being about a couple who's relationship has obviously run it's course, but the protagonist in the song isn't strong enough to let go - even though they want to - and the other party won't let go.
This is an all time favorite of mine. The lyrics are so cool and insightful. I guess it can be read many ways. I took it to mean two buddies who had everything when they were young, the world by the tail, but now there is a time a torture less sublime, our souls are locked and frozen. I believe it is about the potential, the beauty, the energy, the fearless and cocksure omnipotence of youth and it should last forever, yet it passes so quickly and you didn't find what you wanted for your life and now in your 30s (lol) or perhaps just say "older" our souls are locked and frozen, meaning that freespirited spontaniety has mileage and fear sets in due to the mistakes of youth when you dive into love and hit your head on concrete, or whatever the dreams and disappointments are, make you wary and nothing ventured nothing gained and so you become frozen. Getting older feels like being punished for a crime as you see the next generation take its reign of power and beauty, and so you look back and say it was the best years of our lives, and you still hope somehow you'll find "it" - my favorite lyric "the only game in town I'll turn the last card down and now the bank is broken" always gives me goosebumps because I think it is about that last grasp for real happiness be it true love, fame, power, etc., and now the bank is broken. Amazing and very overlooked song -
Not sure if I agree. I think it may be a lover from the past. Things were good then, but now they are not. The torture is in the lost love. Let me go is just that, move on, let me go.
Not sure if I agree. I think it may be a lover from the past. Things were good then, but now they are not. The torture is in the lost love. Let me go is just that, move on, let me go.
I've always seen this track as being about a couple who's relationship has obviously run it's course, but the protagonist in the song isn't strong enough to let go - even though they want to - and the other party won't let go.
I've always seen this track as being about a couple who's relationship has obviously run it's course, but the protagonist in the song isn't strong enough to let go - even though they want to - and the other party won't let go.
I have to agree with electra2700. It is a relationship that started off great, but somehow has lost what they had.
I have to agree with electra2700. It is a relationship that started off great, but somehow has lost what they had.
"The only game in town I'll turn the last card down And now the bank is broken"
"The only game in town I'll turn the last card down And now the bank is broken"
That tells me he is saying that there is nothing left in this relationship.
That tells me he is saying that there is nothing left in this relationship.
"Found guilty of no crime They were the best years of our lives"
"Found guilty of no crime They were the best years of our lives"
That tells me there are no regrets and those were good years...but nothing is left.
That tells me there are no regrets and those were good years...but nothing is left.
Just my thoughts. :)
Just my thoughts. :)