This song honestly speaks to me... Corny, yes, but for real.
To me, this song talks about how no matter who you are or what you are you can create a massive influence on society. "You can turn the city upside-down, if you want to." At the end of the line it says that you have the ability to influence society if you want to, as in you can if you try hard enough, also leaving the possibility that ANYONE can do it.
The next part, "But it won't keep you dry," talks about how, say you do influence society, become famous, or even if you are just a wealthy person those things don't matter cause you still are vulnerable to depression, anger, and death. Just because you have material things, it doesn't mean you are invincible.
Moving onto "When you wrap yourself in a highway strip, don't expect any warmth from it. All it is is cold cement," which to me is telling the listener to not have your life surrounded by a job, technology, or basically anything materialistic cause those things can not love you back. But to surround yourself w/ people, people who have the ability to love you and provide you "warmth."
So a major theme I got from this song is that you can affect society with something simple, but don't dwell on the fact that you have achieved other's attention because you still need to feel emotion and love the people in your life.
This song honestly speaks to me... Corny, yes, but for real.
To me, this song talks about how no matter who you are or what you are you can create a massive influence on society. "You can turn the city upside-down, if you want to." At the end of the line it says that you have the ability to influence society if you want to, as in you can if you try hard enough, also leaving the possibility that ANYONE can do it.
The next part, "But it won't keep you dry," talks about how, say you do influence society, become famous, or even if you are just a wealthy person those things don't matter cause you still are vulnerable to depression, anger, and death. Just because you have material things, it doesn't mean you are invincible.
Moving onto "When you wrap yourself in a highway strip, don't expect any warmth from it. All it is is cold cement," which to me is telling the listener to not have your life surrounded by a job, technology, or basically anything materialistic cause those things can not love you back. But to surround yourself w/ people, people who have the ability to love you and provide you "warmth."
So a major theme I got from this song is that you can affect society with something simple, but don't dwell on the fact that you have achieved other's attention because you still need to feel emotion and love the people in your life.