The first section of this song seems to disenchant the idea of growing up. "Putting back a few" could be a reference to getting drunk, I'm not sure. The rest of this verse/intro is about growing up and getting older.
Her old boyfriend isn't a DJ he's a musician who revolutionized music somehow "Broke the 12 bar blues" and is very rich and popular because of that "He pays the airline DJs now. He is everywhere". I don't think this actually happened to the singer as there is no mention of it on wikipedia.
I find it hard to say exactly what this song is about but I find it very depressing/amazing at the same time. It is definitely about some sort of love affair and being disenchanted about growing up in a north American consumer culture as metric has written other songs criticizing American culture.
The first section of this song seems to disenchant the idea of growing up. "Putting back a few" could be a reference to getting drunk, I'm not sure. The rest of this verse/intro is about growing up and getting older.
Her old boyfriend isn't a DJ he's a musician who revolutionized music somehow "Broke the 12 bar blues" and is very rich and popular because of that "He pays the airline DJs now. He is everywhere". I don't think this actually happened to the singer as there is no mention of it on wikipedia.
I find it hard to say exactly what this song is about but I find it very depressing/amazing at the same time. It is definitely about some sort of love affair and being disenchanted about growing up in a north American consumer culture as metric has written other songs criticizing American culture.