it's just about a guy who thinks he's running out of time to settle down with a girl he loves, and he feels e needs tis girl... does he get her... we don't know.
@Unknown Soldier what you describe would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about and the "between the lines" sub-narrative. A big trade off "living for giving the devil his due" and the home he will never have, which includes the regular things everyone needs. Anyone who has traveled for their career knows what this feels like, but turn it up many notches of intensity with the trappings of being a touring rock star. It's not really fun or glamorous, especially once reaching your 30s, which Buck would have been by the time he wrote this. The...
@Unknown Soldier what you describe would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about and the "between the lines" sub-narrative. A big trade off "living for giving the devil his due" and the home he will never have, which includes the regular things everyone needs. Anyone who has traveled for their career knows what this feels like, but turn it up many notches of intensity with the trappings of being a touring rock star. It's not really fun or glamorous, especially once reaching your 30s, which Buck would have been by the time he wrote this. The stories we have heard of with Led Zeppelin and The Who were the stories of very young men who were otherwise BORED and entertaining themselves. That special, sweet regular girl who makes a house a home is never going to wait around for THAT, and often not even for a tame and mature touring musician. She has her needs, too.
The normal life, that love of that regular "girl next door" who could never bear the continuous journeying of this hellbound Path, the abandonment of something more beautiful and genuine than anything that will ever be discovered on the Great Adventure ensuing from this Faustian agreement that in the end will leave the author burning for eternity.
it's just about a guy who thinks he's running out of time to settle down with a girl he loves, and he feels e needs tis girl... does he get her... we don't know.
@Unknown Soldier what you describe would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about and the "between the lines" sub-narrative. A big trade off "living for giving the devil his due" and the home he will never have, which includes the regular things everyone needs. Anyone who has traveled for their career knows what this feels like, but turn it up many notches of intensity with the trappings of being a touring rock star. It's not really fun or glamorous, especially once reaching your 30s, which Buck would have been by the time he wrote this. The...
@Unknown Soldier what you describe would be the unspoken trade-off of the pact this song is about and the "between the lines" sub-narrative. A big trade off "living for giving the devil his due" and the home he will never have, which includes the regular things everyone needs. Anyone who has traveled for their career knows what this feels like, but turn it up many notches of intensity with the trappings of being a touring rock star. It's not really fun or glamorous, especially once reaching your 30s, which Buck would have been by the time he wrote this. The stories we have heard of with Led Zeppelin and The Who were the stories of very young men who were otherwise BORED and entertaining themselves. That special, sweet regular girl who makes a house a home is never going to wait around for THAT, and often not even for a tame and mature touring musician. She has her needs, too.
[@everyone: sorry for the duplicate comment here]
The normal life, that love of that regular "girl next door" who could never bear the continuous journeying of this hellbound Path, the abandonment of something more beautiful and genuine than anything that will ever be discovered on the Great Adventure ensuing from this Faustian agreement that in the end will leave the author burning for eternity.