People never truly appreciate their life, we just fall in place, like robots. This song is not the first to recognize it either. Dave Matthews' song, Ants Marching parallels our life to ants, just doing the same thing over and over. Thorton Wilder, a famous American playwrite also comments on how we do not appreciate our life to the fullest.
Its easy to get into routine. Regardless of age, routine is the easiest way to survive life. Wake up, eat breakfast, get ready for work, go to work, come home, eat dinner, help around the house, watch tv, prepare for next day, sleep. The life we live in, where we always must work to survive has us always stuck in routines. Having the same arguments about the bills and the car and whatever there is to argue about. We never call our parents to say we love them, knowing we'll just get caught up in an annoying conversation that can be put off till the next holliday. We don't resolve our petty fights with our sister, just because we know we have forever to resolve the conflict.
The problem with this is that life gets in the way. This song takes the idea of us just being asleep our lives to another level. Something happens, and we fall awake. We finally realize that life is not always the same. That life has its curveballs. Some one dies. As shown in Grey's when this song is played, George's dad dies. "the hardest pill to swallow"
This excellent and simple song by Gary Jules portrays the idea that we are asleep our lives, and then something happens, horrible, and we fall awake. It is not pleasent. We do not rise awake, we do not become awake, we fall. We loose control of our life, we stumble, and we fall into our horrible reality.
The songs lines are pretty basic I thought, and easily appliable to my opinion of the song's meaning, though the one line, "do you wanna buy a rocket?" bothered me. I really liked the line, but I felt if it meant something then just random babble, or even if it was meant to be random babble, I could get the full experience of the line. Sure, it rhymes with pocket, but I think what it means is that, when these horrible things happen, we do not want to be in our reality. We want to travel far away to "a far distant town on an island in the blue bay" as Ingrid Michaelson, another star of Grey's music, would say. We want our rocket to take us out of our reality and pain we have.
Another line that just blows me away is "one foot in the grave, the other in the shower" One foot in the grave is a common phrase meaning close to death. Though, as he feels close to dying, like he wants to die, he knows that he also wants to wash away everything and start a new day, and that, he will get over this incident, this tradjedy.
Well thats my opinion. I hope you read it, and I hope you care enough to comment about it, regardless of if you agree or disagree.
People never truly appreciate their life, we just fall in place, like robots. This song is not the first to recognize it either. Dave Matthews' song, Ants Marching parallels our life to ants, just doing the same thing over and over. Thorton Wilder, a famous American playwrite also comments on how we do not appreciate our life to the fullest. Its easy to get into routine. Regardless of age, routine is the easiest way to survive life. Wake up, eat breakfast, get ready for work, go to work, come home, eat dinner, help around the house, watch tv, prepare for next day, sleep. The life we live in, where we always must work to survive has us always stuck in routines. Having the same arguments about the bills and the car and whatever there is to argue about. We never call our parents to say we love them, knowing we'll just get caught up in an annoying conversation that can be put off till the next holliday. We don't resolve our petty fights with our sister, just because we know we have forever to resolve the conflict. The problem with this is that life gets in the way. This song takes the idea of us just being asleep our lives to another level. Something happens, and we fall awake. We finally realize that life is not always the same. That life has its curveballs. Some one dies. As shown in Grey's when this song is played, George's dad dies. "the hardest pill to swallow" This excellent and simple song by Gary Jules portrays the idea that we are asleep our lives, and then something happens, horrible, and we fall awake. It is not pleasent. We do not rise awake, we do not become awake, we fall. We loose control of our life, we stumble, and we fall into our horrible reality. The songs lines are pretty basic I thought, and easily appliable to my opinion of the song's meaning, though the one line, "do you wanna buy a rocket?" bothered me. I really liked the line, but I felt if it meant something then just random babble, or even if it was meant to be random babble, I could get the full experience of the line. Sure, it rhymes with pocket, but I think what it means is that, when these horrible things happen, we do not want to be in our reality. We want to travel far away to "a far distant town on an island in the blue bay" as Ingrid Michaelson, another star of Grey's music, would say. We want our rocket to take us out of our reality and pain we have. Another line that just blows me away is "one foot in the grave, the other in the shower" One foot in the grave is a common phrase meaning close to death. Though, as he feels close to dying, like he wants to die, he knows that he also wants to wash away everything and start a new day, and that, he will get over this incident, this tradjedy. Well thats my opinion. I hope you read it, and I hope you care enough to comment about it, regardless of if you agree or disagree.