To me it seems like it's about touring, probably with My Morning Jacket, but that's hard to say, the first part being about coming home to an empty house after a tour.
The second I see as an urging to try and have fun in everything you do, positivity being a very common thread in most songs by Jim James.
The third part again about touring, saying that earlier, way back, touring used to be more fun, the greatest quest, but now sometimes he gets bored even though he knows he should be blessed (that he can make a living out of music). He goes on to describe that touring, coming and going, makes it hard to keep friends and that he’s tired of doing nothing and feel like they (the band perhaps) should be making plans instead. Jim James has talked in interviews about working on other paths than the musical one and about eventually making a family, so possibly something to do with that.
To me it seems like it's about touring, probably with My Morning Jacket, but that's hard to say, the first part being about coming home to an empty house after a tour.
The second I see as an urging to try and have fun in everything you do, positivity being a very common thread in most songs by Jim James.
The third part again about touring, saying that earlier, way back, touring used to be more fun, the greatest quest, but now sometimes he gets bored even though he knows he should be blessed (that he can make a living out of music). He goes on to describe that touring, coming and going, makes it hard to keep friends and that he’s tired of doing nothing and feel like they (the band perhaps) should be making plans instead. Jim James has talked in interviews about working on other paths than the musical one and about eventually making a family, so possibly something to do with that.