love CS for always experimenting with their stuff but was totally caught off guard by this first song.
this song is definite evidence of a theme that runs throughout the album. a lot of people have posted that its the band expressing regret over switching labels but i see it just as a lot of regrets/growing up/thinking back about life. this song, in particular, speaks to the idea of "did my life go the way it should have?" the idea of nobody wanting to sit in the driver's seat is probably his expression that no one wants time to slip away (which is one of the two things that happens when you drive...the other being arriving at your destination, which in this case, we never know where we're going so it doesn't matter)
signs, obviously, can be anything. perhaps an address to materialistic tendencies of having arrived as a member of capitalist society, when he says "i don't know where i am without them / in our lives" (?) or even just the recognition of others.
I agree, I think narrowing it to be just about the record label is over-simplifying it. Atlantic didnt really change thier sound drastically anyways, so I doubt they really have too much regret over that. It seems more general life questioning and doubts.
I agree, I think narrowing it to be just about the record label is over-simplifying it. Atlantic didnt really change thier sound drastically anyways, so I doubt they really have too much regret over that. It seems more general life questioning and doubts.
love CS for always experimenting with their stuff but was totally caught off guard by this first song.
this song is definite evidence of a theme that runs throughout the album. a lot of people have posted that its the band expressing regret over switching labels but i see it just as a lot of regrets/growing up/thinking back about life. this song, in particular, speaks to the idea of "did my life go the way it should have?" the idea of nobody wanting to sit in the driver's seat is probably his expression that no one wants time to slip away (which is one of the two things that happens when you drive...the other being arriving at your destination, which in this case, we never know where we're going so it doesn't matter)
signs, obviously, can be anything. perhaps an address to materialistic tendencies of having arrived as a member of capitalist society, when he says "i don't know where i am without them / in our lives" (?) or even just the recognition of others.
I agree, I think narrowing it to be just about the record label is over-simplifying it. Atlantic didnt really change thier sound drastically anyways, so I doubt they really have too much regret over that. It seems more general life questioning and doubts.
I agree, I think narrowing it to be just about the record label is over-simplifying it. Atlantic didnt really change thier sound drastically anyways, so I doubt they really have too much regret over that. It seems more general life questioning and doubts.