In one of the podcasts they made while making Barenaked Ladies Are Me, Steve and Ed were talking about this song and apparently the guy and his girlfriend did just move somewhere else and didn't break up and it's about not wanting to see what somebody else has done to someplace where you've made so many memories.
Throughout the song the speaker is remembering things about the place (being broke, punching a hole in the wall, breaking a bone, etc.), which things the new tenants changed (painting the walls, changing the locks, cleaning the floor, getting rid of the old phone on the wall), and by seeing other people do things with what's left of these memories (they covered the hole, they're using the same dish rack and mousetrap) and generally changing what he did to his place, he wants it all to be the same again. The new tenants are changing things without knowing the sentimental value and are in a way destroying that value and those memories, and the speaker wants to have those memories and value back. (I want them back)
Any time you find an artist using the number 42, it is likely a reference to the answer to the meaning of life found in hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy.
Any time you find an artist using the number 42, it is likely a reference to the answer to the meaning of life found in hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy.
Supposedly, we used to live in the place of 42 per say, and forgot everything upon being born here. Of course this supposes that we came form somewhere...
Breaking the locks is also another indicator, because human beings have to break the barriers in order to get any semblance of 42 once again while living.
Also he talks about being happy now with his girl here. Happiness in this world again is supposedly...
Supposedly, we used to live in the place of 42 per say, and forgot everything upon being born here. Of course this supposes that we came form somewhere...
Breaking the locks is also another indicator, because human beings have to break the barriers in order to get any semblance of 42 once again while living.
Also he talks about being happy now with his girl here. Happiness in this world again is supposedly based on achieving true love, which ironically is identical with understanding and connection with again 42.
Just a thought, it really changes the meaning of the song though potentially...
Very out there I know
In one of the podcasts they made while making Barenaked Ladies Are Me, Steve and Ed were talking about this song and apparently the guy and his girlfriend did just move somewhere else and didn't break up and it's about not wanting to see what somebody else has done to someplace where you've made so many memories.
Throughout the song the speaker is remembering things about the place (being broke, punching a hole in the wall, breaking a bone, etc.), which things the new tenants changed (painting the walls, changing the locks, cleaning the floor, getting rid of the old phone on the wall), and by seeing other people do things with what's left of these memories (they covered the hole, they're using the same dish rack and mousetrap) and generally changing what he did to his place, he wants it all to be the same again. The new tenants are changing things without knowing the sentimental value and are in a way destroying that value and those memories, and the speaker wants to have those memories and value back. (I want them back)
Any time you find an artist using the number 42, it is likely a reference to the answer to the meaning of life found in hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy.
Any time you find an artist using the number 42, it is likely a reference to the answer to the meaning of life found in hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy.
Supposedly, we used to live in the place of 42 per say, and forgot everything upon being born here. Of course this supposes that we came form somewhere... Breaking the locks is also another indicator, because human beings have to break the barriers in order to get any semblance of 42 once again while living. Also he talks about being happy now with his girl here. Happiness in this world again is supposedly...
Supposedly, we used to live in the place of 42 per say, and forgot everything upon being born here. Of course this supposes that we came form somewhere... Breaking the locks is also another indicator, because human beings have to break the barriers in order to get any semblance of 42 once again while living. Also he talks about being happy now with his girl here. Happiness in this world again is supposedly based on achieving true love, which ironically is identical with understanding and connection with again 42.
Just a thought, it really changes the meaning of the song though potentially... Very out there I know