Throughout the song Graffin mentions famous authors; Hemmingway, Kerouac and Wolfe. All three were noted for writing about normal people. The examples that come to mind immediatly are Hemmingways Nick Adams stories. They are simple stories about a young man going to war and coming home.
Throughout the song Graffin compares these 'normal' stories written by some of the greatest authors of the 20th century to what you read in the news. Child abuse (first and second line), lovers quarrels turned deadly, unexpected suicides, homelessness, drug abuse and alcoholism.
Graffin is saying that some of the news stories you hear sound like they are written by an amateur fiction writer because they are almost unbelievable.
Throughout the song Graffin mentions famous authors; Hemmingway, Kerouac and Wolfe. All three were noted for writing about normal people. The examples that come to mind immediatly are Hemmingways Nick Adams stories. They are simple stories about a young man going to war and coming home.
Throughout the song Graffin compares these 'normal' stories written by some of the greatest authors of the 20th century to what you read in the news. Child abuse (first and second line), lovers quarrels turned deadly, unexpected suicides, homelessness, drug abuse and alcoholism.
Graffin is saying that some of the news stories you hear sound like they are written by an amateur fiction writer because they are almost unbelievable.