I don't really see how this is about smoking. I mean, the smoking reference midway through the song is just saying that she'll live a good long time, if she doesn't smoke. The point of the songs seems to me to be that she's waiting and trying to build the courage to confront someone she loves with the fact that she cares about them. It's Amanda perhaps resigning herself to not having that courage, and trying to enjoy herself in spite of not being able to confront them ("can't we just wait together/you bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"). An absolutely beautiful song.
She's counting her reasons to live (I have my new Bill Hicks CD/I have my friends and my career) she decides to wait another year before ending her life.
She's counting her reasons to live (I have my new Bill Hicks CD/I have my friends and my career) she decides to wait another year before ending her life.
Yep, I pretty much agree with all of this. But the smoking thing is deliciously contradictory: at first she is using the prospect of a long life to justify putting off telling this person how she feels about them; later - and isn't it just the killer line in the song, "You bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"? - she seems to have forgotten about the long life, in fact she seems to have given up on ever telling them. Such a moving song.
Yep, I pretty much agree with all of this. But the smoking thing is deliciously contradictory: at first she is using the prospect of a long life to justify putting off telling this person how she feels about them; later - and isn't it just the killer line in the song, "You bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"? - she seems to have forgotten about the long life, in fact she seems to have given up on ever telling them. Such a moving song.
Sorry, I meant that I agree with Veit, not vermillionliar. The song isn't about suicide per se, IMO, other than in the sense of not doing with your life what you really want to do.
Sorry, I meant that I agree with Veit, not vermillionliar. The song isn't about suicide per se, IMO, other than in the sense of not doing with your life what you really want to do.
I don't really see how this is about smoking. I mean, the smoking reference midway through the song is just saying that she'll live a good long time, if she doesn't smoke. The point of the songs seems to me to be that she's waiting and trying to build the courage to confront someone she loves with the fact that she cares about them. It's Amanda perhaps resigning herself to not having that courage, and trying to enjoy herself in spite of not being able to confront them ("can't we just wait together/you bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"). An absolutely beautiful song.
She's counting her reasons to live (I have my new Bill Hicks CD/I have my friends and my career) she decides to wait another year before ending her life.
She's counting her reasons to live (I have my new Bill Hicks CD/I have my friends and my career) she decides to wait another year before ending her life.
Yep, I pretty much agree with all of this. But the smoking thing is deliciously contradictory: at first she is using the prospect of a long life to justify putting off telling this person how she feels about them; later - and isn't it just the killer line in the song, "You bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"? - she seems to have forgotten about the long life, in fact she seems to have given up on ever telling them. Such a moving song.
Yep, I pretty much agree with all of this. But the smoking thing is deliciously contradictory: at first she is using the prospect of a long life to justify putting off telling this person how she feels about them; later - and isn't it just the killer line in the song, "You bring the smokes, I'll bring the beer"? - she seems to have forgotten about the long life, in fact she seems to have given up on ever telling them. Such a moving song.
Sorry, I meant that I agree with Veit, not vermillionliar. The song isn't about suicide per se, IMO, other than in the sense of not doing with your life what you really want to do.
Sorry, I meant that I agree with Veit, not vermillionliar. The song isn't about suicide per se, IMO, other than in the sense of not doing with your life what you really want to do.