I think it's about a girl who ended up getting pregnant and she had to deal with all the stress of being a young mother while her friends got to live their lives. Now her friends are starting their families and they are so happy and she can't seem to find out why when she was so miserable going through the same thing. Then she begins to understand that she could've been happier about it.
Okay... I'm sorry, but this is completely inaccurate, and everybody is quoting this all wrong.
Okay... I'm sorry, but this is completely inaccurate, and everybody is quoting this all wrong.
First of all, he says right in the song, 'Not yet a mother but a good complex', referring to an Oedipus Complex.
Oedipus accidentally killed his own father and married his mother. He's saying she only likes innocent boys, not grown, mature men.
First of all, he says right in the song, 'Not yet a mother but a good complex', referring to an Oedipus Complex.
Oedipus accidentally killed his own father and married his mother. He's saying she only likes innocent boys, not grown, mature men.
The song is not about a young mother. It's about a girl who has a shallow, materialistic life and the narrator (Conor) is asking her to show him her happiness, implying that he doesn't think she's happy at all, but is just...
The song is not about a young mother. It's about a girl who has a shallow, materialistic life and the narrator (Conor) is asking her to show him her happiness, implying that he doesn't think she's happy at all, but is just compensating for it with material possessions- 'throw another shower for a friend'.
The part that says, 'I heard you scream in your mother's voice/So afraid you'd become her in the end' is NOT about wanting to be like her mother, it's exactly the opposite- She IS becoming her mother and that's what she's most afraid of.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I love this song, and even though I don't know Conor Oberst's exact meaning behind it, I do know English, and this song is just not about a mother. It says so right in the song.
I think it's about a girl who ended up getting pregnant and she had to deal with all the stress of being a young mother while her friends got to live their lives. Now her friends are starting their families and they are so happy and she can't seem to find out why when she was so miserable going through the same thing. Then she begins to understand that she could've been happier about it.
Yea that's what i think so...
Okay... I'm sorry, but this is completely inaccurate, and everybody is quoting this all wrong.
Okay... I'm sorry, but this is completely inaccurate, and everybody is quoting this all wrong.
First of all, he says right in the song, 'Not yet a mother but a good complex', referring to an Oedipus Complex. Oedipus accidentally killed his own father and married his mother. He's saying she only likes innocent boys, not grown, mature men.
First of all, he says right in the song, 'Not yet a mother but a good complex', referring to an Oedipus Complex. Oedipus accidentally killed his own father and married his mother. He's saying she only likes innocent boys, not grown, mature men.
The song is not about a young mother. It's about a girl who has a shallow, materialistic life and the narrator (Conor) is asking her to show him her happiness, implying that he doesn't think she's happy at all, but is just...
The song is not about a young mother. It's about a girl who has a shallow, materialistic life and the narrator (Conor) is asking her to show him her happiness, implying that he doesn't think she's happy at all, but is just compensating for it with material possessions- 'throw another shower for a friend'.
The part that says, 'I heard you scream in your mother's voice/So afraid you'd become her in the end' is NOT about wanting to be like her mother, it's exactly the opposite- She IS becoming her mother and that's what she's most afraid of.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I love this song, and even though I don't know Conor Oberst's exact meaning behind it, I do know English, and this song is just not about a mother. It says so right in the song.