I don't see it as being Anti Bush. To me, it's like Gord is saying 'Okay, we say the world is a small place. Go find out for yourself.'
Here's a few reasons why.
'The good news is you are smaller, the bad news is you can be smaller than that' - To me, this means that we have things like the internet and the telephone, all this technology that makes are lives easier and more comfortable, but we aren't completely closed off from experience yet. I feel like he's suggesting here that we like what we have, we don't want to go out of our comfort zone.
'Been to the touchless times, our where the water's dryin' - This feels like a tourism pitch, if you will. He's saying 'Hey, this what I've done because I'm not locked in some sort of container. Why don't you come check it out?
'Been past the no attractions past this point sign' - Again, I feel like Gord is saying 'Here's this world you live in. It's small. It doesn't have to be.' and there's a line in the sand. On one sand is what we know and feel comfortable with, on the other is this amazing place called Earth, and this amazing thing called Life, and he wants us to come and see it, and use it.
'What you'll find there are all flaws in progress' I'm still kind of unsure on this one. It's like he's saying 'We like to think we're perfect. Come see what the real deal is. We're not perfect. But we're pretty friggen cool.'
'Go suck some souls, be a reader, get used
Laugh at a funeral or two
And laugh til all the chameleons turn black
Laugh and laugh til you're told 'please don't come back' This to me is saying..We've got this proper and well established way of doing things. Great. Now do something different.
Hip songs are really hard to get the meaning out of, but I think if you get some sort of meaning out of it, even if it's not what they were thinking when they wrote it, I still think they'd be happy. This song, to me, is encouraging. It's like it says 'Don't settle for what is expected of you. Go do your thing, see the world, connect. Don't be so stuck in a World Container', if you will. Great song!
I don't see it as being Anti Bush. To me, it's like Gord is saying 'Okay, we say the world is a small place. Go find out for yourself.'
Here's a few reasons why.
'The good news is you are smaller, the bad news is you can be smaller than that' - To me, this means that we have things like the internet and the telephone, all this technology that makes are lives easier and more comfortable, but we aren't completely closed off from experience yet. I feel like he's suggesting here that we like what we have, we don't want to go out of our comfort zone.
'Been to the touchless times, our where the water's dryin' - This feels like a tourism pitch, if you will. He's saying 'Hey, this what I've done because I'm not locked in some sort of container. Why don't you come check it out?
'Been past the no attractions past this point sign' - Again, I feel like Gord is saying 'Here's this world you live in. It's small. It doesn't have to be.' and there's a line in the sand. On one sand is what we know and feel comfortable with, on the other is this amazing place called Earth, and this amazing thing called Life, and he wants us to come and see it, and use it.
'What you'll find there are all flaws in progress' I'm still kind of unsure on this one. It's like he's saying 'We like to think we're perfect. Come see what the real deal is. We're not perfect. But we're pretty friggen cool.'
'Go suck some souls, be a reader, get used Laugh at a funeral or two And laugh til all the chameleons turn black Laugh and laugh til you're told 'please don't come back' This to me is saying..We've got this proper and well established way of doing things. Great. Now do something different.
Hip songs are really hard to get the meaning out of, but I think if you get some sort of meaning out of it, even if it's not what they were thinking when they wrote it, I still think they'd be happy. This song, to me, is encouraging. It's like it says 'Don't settle for what is expected of you. Go do your thing, see the world, connect. Don't be so stuck in a World Container', if you will. Great song!