This is actually a very deep song, representing modern man's discontent with a modern world, in this case what I call the infliction Middle Class Malaise. "My crime is discomfort, a mind ill at ease." He was born into a position of expectation because he has been given everything he has needed since birth, yet has failed to meet the expectations imposed on him by society and has been nothing but a "disclaimer for 24 years" causing his mother grief. His mother/parents had expectations that he would secure an "epic of wealth" because he has been given everything he needs to succeed but after tasting the "grace", in this case the good, secure life that has been the goal of modern society, he has rejected it, and "placed it back on the shelf". He says he came from "this city a victim of peace," the city being San Francisco which one may say is the ultimate manifestation of liberal, modern society and he decides he wants nothing to do with it, rejecting civilized society, and would rather live "savage and free" and return to the State of Nature which humans were first born into, unprotected by the state or god or any other man made instituitions, but truly free and one with nature.
This is actually a very deep song, representing modern man's discontent with a modern world, in this case what I call the infliction Middle Class Malaise. "My crime is discomfort, a mind ill at ease." He was born into a position of expectation because he has been given everything he has needed since birth, yet has failed to meet the expectations imposed on him by society and has been nothing but a "disclaimer for 24 years" causing his mother grief. His mother/parents had expectations that he would secure an "epic of wealth" because he has been given everything he needs to succeed but after tasting the "grace", in this case the good, secure life that has been the goal of modern society, he has rejected it, and "placed it back on the shelf". He says he came from "this city a victim of peace," the city being San Francisco which one may say is the ultimate manifestation of liberal, modern society and he decides he wants nothing to do with it, rejecting civilized society, and would rather live "savage and free" and return to the State of Nature which humans were first born into, unprotected by the state or god or any other man made instituitions, but truly free and one with nature.