Haha I remembered when I started to realize this too. I've always been a hopeless romantic. But growing up I slowly began to realize it wasn't really that way.
Especially resonant in the gay community. Where growing up we had to go through being alone in the most horrible sense of the word. Just kids wondering why we felt that way, wondering why the God of our parents and friends could do this to us, and why people hate us so much. All of that are dealt with alone, there was no one to talk to about it. We come of age earlier, having to deal with the facts of life and the general insanity of the world at a younger age, something most people only go through later in life.
Anyway, end result: we almost always end up either being bitter or retreating into ourselves. Becoming introverts, we took comfort in those fantasies of that magical 'someday' when we will meet that perfect guy/girl who'll take us away from this shitty world and live happily ever after.
Boy could we be so wrong, haha. The gay community is just as prejudiced, just as f*d up as straight relationships. Maybe even more so with our obsession on physical perfection. If you don't look like a movie star, you'll almost certainly be shoved to the sidelines.
I think this can be linked with one of Brannan's earlier songs (which he admitted he doesn't believe in anymore) - Housewife. Which says perfectly what most of us felt like when we were younger. I bet he wrote that in his mid-teens haha. It's sad, but from having hopes like 'Housewife' you end up with songs like this sooner or later. 'Happy ever afters' happen, but only to a very few people. And frankly I'm not holding my breath anymore.
Haha I remembered when I started to realize this too. I've always been a hopeless romantic. But growing up I slowly began to realize it wasn't really that way.
Especially resonant in the gay community. Where growing up we had to go through being alone in the most horrible sense of the word. Just kids wondering why we felt that way, wondering why the God of our parents and friends could do this to us, and why people hate us so much. All of that are dealt with alone, there was no one to talk to about it. We come of age earlier, having to deal with the facts of life and the general insanity of the world at a younger age, something most people only go through later in life.
Anyway, end result: we almost always end up either being bitter or retreating into ourselves. Becoming introverts, we took comfort in those fantasies of that magical 'someday' when we will meet that perfect guy/girl who'll take us away from this shitty world and live happily ever after.
Boy could we be so wrong, haha. The gay community is just as prejudiced, just as f*d up as straight relationships. Maybe even more so with our obsession on physical perfection. If you don't look like a movie star, you'll almost certainly be shoved to the sidelines.
I think this can be linked with one of Brannan's earlier songs (which he admitted he doesn't believe in anymore) - Housewife. Which says perfectly what most of us felt like when we were younger. I bet he wrote that in his mid-teens haha. It's sad, but from having hopes like 'Housewife' you end up with songs like this sooner or later. 'Happy ever afters' happen, but only to a very few people. And frankly I'm not holding my breath anymore.