Jukebox was out signing their CDs at the merchandise table and I had an opportunity to ask Thornewill about the last two lines of this song because I didn't really understand them:
"You're wearing it down, you know, when you walk like that
We're not supposed to carry ourselves in the smalls of our backs"
He said that he was out on a nice spring day and observed that a lot of people were hunched over, as if they were carrying the weight of themselves on the smalls of their backs. The "wearing it down" part refers to them wearing the earth out by walking so heavily.
I had previously thought that this was some sort of love song "you've become a fire for me ever since you turned eighteen" . . . some young, hot thing lit a fire deep inside his heart, but I don't know now. I was too sheepish to ask.
I asked about the song in gernal at a CD signing and he said something along the lines of:
"It's about when I was living in DC and during the freezing winters I felt bad for the homeless people. I thought about lighting myself on fire to keep them warm."
I asked about the song in gernal at a CD signing and he said something along the lines of:
"It's about when I was living in DC and during the freezing winters I felt bad for the homeless people. I thought about lighting myself on fire to keep them warm."
Jukebox was out signing their CDs at the merchandise table and I had an opportunity to ask Thornewill about the last two lines of this song because I didn't really understand them:
"You're wearing it down, you know, when you walk like that We're not supposed to carry ourselves in the smalls of our backs"
He said that he was out on a nice spring day and observed that a lot of people were hunched over, as if they were carrying the weight of themselves on the smalls of their backs. The "wearing it down" part refers to them wearing the earth out by walking so heavily.
I had previously thought that this was some sort of love song "you've become a fire for me ever since you turned eighteen" . . . some young, hot thing lit a fire deep inside his heart, but I don't know now. I was too sheepish to ask.
I asked about the song in gernal at a CD signing and he said something along the lines of: "It's about when I was living in DC and during the freezing winters I felt bad for the homeless people. I thought about lighting myself on fire to keep them warm."
I asked about the song in gernal at a CD signing and he said something along the lines of: "It's about when I was living in DC and during the freezing winters I felt bad for the homeless people. I thought about lighting myself on fire to keep them warm."