In regards to the second verse, "looked out the window till I saw too much", I take this as him just observing things in general for long enough and he finally starts viewing life in a different way. And not necessarily in a better way than the innocent, curious way that he did as a child. He started figuring everything out for himself and realized things weren't as joyous as they once seemed.
As for calling parents by their own first names, maybe its just me but I have noticed a few people that I have known a while eventually wind up calling their parents by their first names...just something that happens with age.
And in the alley, when you were a kid, did you ever have a game or certain thing you did for fun that you never thought would grow old or it never even occured to you that it would grow old? I guess the game didn't really get old; he did.
The second verse isn't directly related to the first. It's about a kid dealing with his parents divorce. He sees his dad every other weekend and rides the trailways bus to where his dad is living. His parents are trying to make things seem like everything is okay, and he realizes it's not and has a lot of childish delusions broken. The ghosts are the childish thing according to his Aunt Clara. In the last verse it's heaven that's the childish thing, and the ghosts are really old memories of people from his past.
The second verse isn't directly related to the first. It's about a kid dealing with his parents divorce. He sees his dad every other weekend and rides the trailways bus to where his dad is living. His parents are trying to make things seem like everything is okay, and he realizes it's not and has a lot of childish delusions broken. The ghosts are the childish thing according to his Aunt Clara. In the last verse it's heaven that's the childish thing, and the ghosts are really old memories of people from his past.
In regards to the second verse, "looked out the window till I saw too much", I take this as him just observing things in general for long enough and he finally starts viewing life in a different way. And not necessarily in a better way than the innocent, curious way that he did as a child. He started figuring everything out for himself and realized things weren't as joyous as they once seemed. As for calling parents by their own first names, maybe its just me but I have noticed a few people that I have known a while eventually wind up calling their parents by their first names...just something that happens with age. And in the alley, when you were a kid, did you ever have a game or certain thing you did for fun that you never thought would grow old or it never even occured to you that it would grow old? I guess the game didn't really get old; he did.
The second verse isn't directly related to the first. It's about a kid dealing with his parents divorce. He sees his dad every other weekend and rides the trailways bus to where his dad is living. His parents are trying to make things seem like everything is okay, and he realizes it's not and has a lot of childish delusions broken. The ghosts are the childish thing according to his Aunt Clara. In the last verse it's heaven that's the childish thing, and the ghosts are really old memories of people from his past.
The second verse isn't directly related to the first. It's about a kid dealing with his parents divorce. He sees his dad every other weekend and rides the trailways bus to where his dad is living. His parents are trying to make things seem like everything is okay, and he realizes it's not and has a lot of childish delusions broken. The ghosts are the childish thing according to his Aunt Clara. In the last verse it's heaven that's the childish thing, and the ghosts are really old memories of people from his past.