Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but it reminds me a lot of something like Tom Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again." It's like they're singing to someone who's left and made it big, but in a way that won't let them come back home.
January clipped your wires
[In january, you lost touch with "home"]
The summer went straight through your tires
[spent all year traveling around]
Every faded sign that passed you
Used to point the way towards you
[you're becoming famous and well-known]
Lately you've come to enjoy the generosity of strangers
[rather than being surrounded with true friends, you're involved with people who are basically strangers]
The mechanisms you employ
They may have got you known
But I'm not scared to go home
[The things you do may have gained you notoriety, but at least I don't have to worry about going back to where I came from]
Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but it reminds me a lot of something like Tom Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again." It's like they're singing to someone who's left and made it big, but in a way that won't let them come back home.
January clipped your wires [In january, you lost touch with "home"] The summer went straight through your tires [spent all year traveling around] Every faded sign that passed you Used to point the way towards you [you're becoming famous and well-known] Lately you've come to enjoy the generosity of strangers [rather than being surrounded with true friends, you're involved with people who are basically strangers] The mechanisms you employ They may have got you known But I'm not scared to go home [The things you do may have gained you notoriety, but at least I don't have to worry about going back to where I came from]
That's how it reads to me, at least.