Ted Leo crafts a beautiful atmosphere with this song. The music has a manic quality that really reinforces the unusual combination of desperation and resignation in the lyrics. The narrator is thinking about the futility of being in a relationship with someone with whom he has fallen out of love, and also the emptiness of planning and hurrying without having anything fulfilling to come home to. He at least finds some redemption in writing songs.
This song seems packed with ideas. The idea of hurrying and planning, but having nothing to show for it, is something that I can really relate to. I also understand being in a semi-loveless relationship and feeling trapped, and having to resort to other things to feel fulfilled. The houses he is dreaming of are houses full of people he could have loved and lives he could have led, but didn't.
Ted Leo crafts a beautiful atmosphere with this song. The music has a manic quality that really reinforces the unusual combination of desperation and resignation in the lyrics. The narrator is thinking about the futility of being in a relationship with someone with whom he has fallen out of love, and also the emptiness of planning and hurrying without having anything fulfilling to come home to. He at least finds some redemption in writing songs.
This song seems packed with ideas. The idea of hurrying and planning, but having nothing to show for it, is something that I can really relate to. I also understand being in a semi-loveless relationship and feeling trapped, and having to resort to other things to feel fulfilled. The houses he is dreaming of are houses full of people he could have loved and lives he could have led, but didn't.