This song fucking rocks, what a great anthem for a man who seems to hang on to life by a single thread. This whole album is just an ode to self-destruction, from the first words of the first song ("There's a paper bag that holds the liquor, just in case I feel the need to puke") to the last words of this one. David Berman went through some hard times before and during the making of this album, I read an interview where he said he was barely making $10,000 a year and couldn't pay his rent or his bills, became addicted to crack (!!!) and booze and went to treatment for it. With the success of this album I think he began to turn his life around, and it's almost too bad because I enjoy the lows of this album as much as the highs of American Water.
This song fucking rocks, what a great anthem for a man who seems to hang on to life by a single thread. This whole album is just an ode to self-destruction, from the first words of the first song ("There's a paper bag that holds the liquor, just in case I feel the need to puke") to the last words of this one. David Berman went through some hard times before and during the making of this album, I read an interview where he said he was barely making $10,000 a year and couldn't pay his rent or his bills, became addicted to crack (!!!) and booze and went to treatment for it. With the success of this album I think he began to turn his life around, and it's almost too bad because I enjoy the lows of this album as much as the highs of American Water.