This song is lonley. It's about feeling lost from humanity, only connected through the places we all walk, the cigarettes we all desperately suck, the things we all lose and never find. We only find banana peels and orange rinds from strangers on streets, everything meaningful is used up like nicotine; dissapears and we're desperate to find something more. It's about how desolate life seems when you're alone and all you have to remind yourself that others live on the empty streets you walk on late at night, and are lost as you are, just at different times, taking different steps, are the cigarette butts you all dispose of and the unedible parts of what feed our lives. --Like the leftovers of human existence, and all we have left to see and think of when everything is desolate.
The title has a lot of significance and fits the song perfectly. She talks about in the song walking streets and Soho is a southwestern district in Manhattan that she could be referring to, considering she's a New Yorker. Soho is also a district in London, where the streets are paved with cigarette butts just the same, giving the song underlying messages of the universality of the lost condition of humanity. Also, Soho is a word used in calling from a distant place. The feeling of the song protrays feeling a distance from the rest of civilization, only connected through the lost feeling shared, but only noticed when you're around and walking on the ground you all walk on, looking at what's left. Otherwise the lostness goes unacknowledged, like it can't be heard from the distant we all are at from one another.
"it's surprising how little things we know
I was walking through my mindscape
and I didn't find a thing
it's surprising how little things we know
I was walking through my mind's streets
red light stop and green light go
and I didn't get run over"
A lot of the song especially where she says "it's surprising..." gives the vibe of curiosity and learning. As we're always feeling and experiencing in our lives, especially when we're alone and there's nothing left to do but learn and wonder. She uses a similie for the empty streets she walks on and the emptiness of her mind; the vaccant, leftover and meaning-searching streets of the city, the lost, vaccant, thoughtless pathways in her mind.
I love the piano in this song and the lyrics say so much to me. It touches me so personally in so many ways. I could listen to the words she sings about the unifying desperation and desire for meaning the world feels, together, but so solitarily at the same time, over and over again.
This song is lonley. It's about feeling lost from humanity, only connected through the places we all walk, the cigarettes we all desperately suck, the things we all lose and never find. We only find banana peels and orange rinds from strangers on streets, everything meaningful is used up like nicotine; dissapears and we're desperate to find something more. It's about how desolate life seems when you're alone and all you have to remind yourself that others live on the empty streets you walk on late at night, and are lost as you are, just at different times, taking different steps, are the cigarette butts you all dispose of and the unedible parts of what feed our lives. --Like the leftovers of human existence, and all we have left to see and think of when everything is desolate. The title has a lot of significance and fits the song perfectly. She talks about in the song walking streets and Soho is a southwestern district in Manhattan that she could be referring to, considering she's a New Yorker. Soho is also a district in London, where the streets are paved with cigarette butts just the same, giving the song underlying messages of the universality of the lost condition of humanity. Also, Soho is a word used in calling from a distant place. The feeling of the song protrays feeling a distance from the rest of civilization, only connected through the lost feeling shared, but only noticed when you're around and walking on the ground you all walk on, looking at what's left. Otherwise the lostness goes unacknowledged, like it can't be heard from the distant we all are at from one another.
"it's surprising how little things we know I was walking through my mindscape and I didn't find a thing it's surprising how little things we know I was walking through my mind's streets red light stop and green light go and I didn't get run over" A lot of the song especially where she says "it's surprising..." gives the vibe of curiosity and learning. As we're always feeling and experiencing in our lives, especially when we're alone and there's nothing left to do but learn and wonder. She uses a similie for the empty streets she walks on and the emptiness of her mind; the vaccant, leftover and meaning-searching streets of the city, the lost, vaccant, thoughtless pathways in her mind.
I love the piano in this song and the lyrics say so much to me. It touches me so personally in so many ways. I could listen to the words she sings about the unifying desperation and desire for meaning the world feels, together, but so solitarily at the same time, over and over again.