For me, it's like when you're in a big city in the evening and you feel alien, because you don't know any of the people you pass and you wonder if it's less painful to care or not when either way, it'll just get you tired. I think the 'New York cares' thing is irony. Everywhere you see commercials and government and whatever making you feel like you're family, while you belong nowhere. And there come moods when you even wish that people who love you wouldn't, because it gets hard to love them back ('I know you've supported me for a long time/ Somehow I'm not impressed')... and then you get the feeling like everything could be different and beautiful and feel the power of changing your life ('turn on the bright lights')... before waking up into another s*itty day of it next morning. Just what the song sounds like to me personally. =)
For me, it's like when you're in a big city in the evening and you feel alien, because you don't know any of the people you pass and you wonder if it's less painful to care or not when either way, it'll just get you tired. I think the 'New York cares' thing is irony. Everywhere you see commercials and government and whatever making you feel like you're family, while you belong nowhere. And there come moods when you even wish that people who love you wouldn't, because it gets hard to love them back ('I know you've supported me for a long time/ Somehow I'm not impressed')... and then you get the feeling like everything could be different and beautiful and feel the power of changing your life ('turn on the bright lights')... before waking up into another s*itty day of it next morning. Just what the song sounds like to me personally. =)