Again, how has NOBODY heard of Justin Townes Earle, this guy's AMAZING!
Anyway, this song sounds totally like he's either being sarcastic about or in denial of the fact that he's lost everything, his wife, job, home, (self-) respect...
Well since you've left I've had no place to be
I'll spend most everyday doing as I please
I've got pockets full of money; hear a jingle when I walk
His wife left him, he lost his house (or maybe he couldn't afford his apartment after a roommate went somewhere else?), he's unemployed, the bit about pockets full of money jingling means that he's pretending to be really rich but only has coins, worth a few dollars at most
Now if I walk down the street everybody knows my name
They all step aside and let me go my way
They all smile and snicker and some won't talk at all
[i think that was supposed to be "... and snicker in subtle tones of awe"]
He's so filthy that people don't dare get in his way, he's "famous" as the neighborhood unclean, everybody enjoys deriding him, which he's pretending, either to himself or the person he's mad at for leaving him on the street, is everybody respecting him
Oh and all the fancy restaurants won't let me wait inside
They serve me out the backdoor and never ask for a dime
The fancy restaurants don't think he's "proper" enough to be seen eating there, so they shun him to the back where he won't "contaminate" their reputation through association with them; they also enjoy feeling superior to him by giving him pity meals for free
Again, how has NOBODY heard of Justin Townes Earle, this guy's AMAZING!
Anyway, this song sounds totally like he's either being sarcastic about or in denial of the fact that he's lost everything, his wife, job, home, (self-) respect...
Well since you've left I've had no place to be I'll spend most everyday doing as I please I've got pockets full of money; hear a jingle when I walk
His wife left him, he lost his house (or maybe he couldn't afford his apartment after a roommate went somewhere else?), he's unemployed, the bit about pockets full of money jingling means that he's pretending to be really rich but only has coins, worth a few dollars at most
Now if I walk down the street everybody knows my name They all step aside and let me go my way They all smile and snicker and some won't talk at all [i think that was supposed to be "... and snicker in subtle tones of awe"]
He's so filthy that people don't dare get in his way, he's "famous" as the neighborhood unclean, everybody enjoys deriding him, which he's pretending, either to himself or the person he's mad at for leaving him on the street, is everybody respecting him
Oh and all the fancy restaurants won't let me wait inside They serve me out the backdoor and never ask for a dime
The fancy restaurants don't think he's "proper" enough to be seen eating there, so they shun him to the back where he won't "contaminate" their reputation through association with them; they also enjoy feeling superior to him by giving him pity meals for free