Folk Singer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by HolyDiver 

Cover art for Folk Singer lyrics by Brendan Benson

You are entirely wrong, wow, he is just talking about life... he is just a basic guy and isn't really doing much with life and his girl hates it. the part about the chains is how he feels restrained and she is trying to get him to conform and quit writing music and do something real with his life like getting a real job and giving up on music. That is basically the jist of things