I agree about the general sheepishness of the music industry's target audience here, but something else stood out to me as I listened to the song again a few times. Perhaps this song could be about guilt, or rather, the guilt that McCrea feels these people should be feeling at making money off of trash.
The line "You've entered the room with great caution" is where I first started thinking about this, so I finished and went back to listen one more time, noting the progression of instrumentation througout the song, a gradual buildup to a more frantic and dissonant song in places, contrasted with the easygoing nature of the beginning. This in conjunction with the verse,
"You're sitting there thinking your thoughts
They are not about what is but what is not
You are sitting there breathing in your breath
You are seldom breathing life but mostly death," for me, symbolizes a fall into paranoia and self-loathing.
I agree about the general sheepishness of the music industry's target audience here, but something else stood out to me as I listened to the song again a few times. Perhaps this song could be about guilt, or rather, the guilt that McCrea feels these people should be feeling at making money off of trash.
The line "You've entered the room with great caution" is where I first started thinking about this, so I finished and went back to listen one more time, noting the progression of instrumentation througout the song, a gradual buildup to a more frantic and dissonant song in places, contrasted with the easygoing nature of the beginning. This in conjunction with the verse, "You're sitting there thinking your thoughts They are not about what is but what is not You are sitting there breathing in your breath You are seldom breathing life but mostly death," for me, symbolizes a fall into paranoia and self-loathing.