I love songs that have lines that embrace opposites...
"I can't play it safe, but I might just in case"
The overall tone of this song is very upbeat from the get-go, but there is something else...maybe a bit of experience? not necessarily in the guitar playing, obviously john frusciante is very experienced in that, but in life?
the "voice" of this song sounds like it is coming from someone who is full of life experience and is pondering the everyday struggles that we all go through. remembering mistakes in the past, wishing for them to go away, and then finally realizing that you have to move on and can't dwell in the past.
"And things come back you see, to where they don't belong"
the best part of the song in my opinion is the closing verse
"I'm disguised as a reaching hand, I'm a working man,
I don't understand why clockout comes so slow, everytime
that's one line I stay right behind"
The simple acknowledgement that there is never enough time to do what you want in life but always enough time to work...brilliant
I love songs that have lines that embrace opposites...
"I can't play it safe, but I might just in case"
The overall tone of this song is very upbeat from the get-go, but there is something else...maybe a bit of experience? not necessarily in the guitar playing, obviously john frusciante is very experienced in that, but in life?
the "voice" of this song sounds like it is coming from someone who is full of life experience and is pondering the everyday struggles that we all go through. remembering mistakes in the past, wishing for them to go away, and then finally realizing that you have to move on and can't dwell in the past.
"And things come back you see, to where they don't belong"
the best part of the song in my opinion is the closing verse
"I'm disguised as a reaching hand, I'm a working man, I don't understand why clockout comes so slow, everytime that's one line I stay right behind"
The simple acknowledgement that there is never enough time to do what you want in life but always enough time to work...brilliant