Well, The other posts seem well-thought out, interesting ones. Here’s another description to chew on. Tell me if you follow: There’s this young dude, early twenties who for some reason isn’t happy with himself. Shy, kind of loner type whose had few good friends in high school. He prefers the company of Women mostly. He’s somewhat of a social-climber. A TIMID social-climber because he doesn’t really stand out, just kind of goes with the flow. Then comes along the popular girl who takes notice of him. Other chicks start to notice him…you get the idea. He feels comfortable with himself and starts asking girls to take pictures with him. In some twisted way, that’s what defines him. If you were to see the girls he takes pictures with you’d say to yourself ," the man obviously has good taste."
Scratching beneath the surface there’s something else, a deeper motive for his behavior. This is how he wants to be remembered. He feels that memories are a huge part of who we are. Photos do just that. They can tell a lot about who a person is long after they die. He sure doesn’t want to be remembered as a loner. Now what the lyrics in the song suggest that if he were to lose these pictures years of his life would be gone-the proof of his existence lie in those pictures. He might as well be a dead man because nobody would remember his name.
Well, The other posts seem well-thought out, interesting ones. Here’s another description to chew on. Tell me if you follow: There’s this young dude, early twenties who for some reason isn’t happy with himself. Shy, kind of loner type whose had few good friends in high school. He prefers the company of Women mostly. He’s somewhat of a social-climber. A TIMID social-climber because he doesn’t really stand out, just kind of goes with the flow. Then comes along the popular girl who takes notice of him. Other chicks start to notice him…you get the idea. He feels comfortable with himself and starts asking girls to take pictures with him. In some twisted way, that’s what defines him. If you were to see the girls he takes pictures with you’d say to yourself ," the man obviously has good taste."
Scratching beneath the surface there’s something else, a deeper motive for his behavior. This is how he wants to be remembered. He feels that memories are a huge part of who we are. Photos do just that. They can tell a lot about who a person is long after they die. He sure doesn’t want to be remembered as a loner. Now what the lyrics in the song suggest that if he were to lose these pictures years of his life would be gone-the proof of his existence lie in those pictures. He might as well be a dead man because nobody would remember his name.