I always thought this was a song about boredom. just pure simple boredom, and coping with being so bored by singing an exciting song, but since you're so bored you can't think of anything to sing about but your boredom, and so you sing about that. Damien's songs are so expressionistic though, like looking at a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting. I never really know what his songs are about. Other artists are like that too. Like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, David Bowie, but with them it's not as extreme. Like Rolling Stone or Sad Eyed Lady could be interpreted a million ways but Blowin' In The Wind or Masters of War are very forward and have only one or a couiple places you could take them. But Damien rice hasn't made a single song, at all, that i could say i knew exactly what he was talking about. all of them are so full of scatological imagery and evocative sounds, but each unique. He's a master, for sure.
I always thought this was a song about boredom. just pure simple boredom, and coping with being so bored by singing an exciting song, but since you're so bored you can't think of anything to sing about but your boredom, and so you sing about that. Damien's songs are so expressionistic though, like looking at a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting. I never really know what his songs are about. Other artists are like that too. Like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, David Bowie, but with them it's not as extreme. Like Rolling Stone or Sad Eyed Lady could be interpreted a million ways but Blowin' In The Wind or Masters of War are very forward and have only one or a couiple places you could take them. But Damien rice hasn't made a single song, at all, that i could say i knew exactly what he was talking about. all of them are so full of scatological imagery and evocative sounds, but each unique. He's a master, for sure.