I think Butler mentioned in an interview that it was written about his girlfriend at the time who was always jetsetting about Europe, he never knew where she'd be one day from the next. Though I have no bloody idea what this part means in that context: "buy a car and watch it rust/
sister see them fall to dust/they fall around /in another crowded room/paint me like the shirt i'm in/honestly
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@FolsomFred To really get any of the songs on the first album, I think you have to listen to all of the other songs. The "fall around" part gets used multiple times in this song, and it also appears in other songs. So does falling to dust, being alone in a crowded room, people painting each other…
@FolsomFred To really get any of the songs on the first album, I think you have to listen to all of the other songs. The "fall around" part gets used multiple times in this song, and it also appears in other songs. So does falling to dust, being alone in a crowded room, people painting each other…
So, what does it all mean? I don't think Butler himself even knew. He had a swirl of imagines in his head since he was 14, and he was trying to find the songs they fit in, and many of them...
So, what does it all mean? I don't think Butler himself even knew. He had a swirl of imagines in his head since he was 14, and he was trying to find the songs they fit in, and many of them turned out to fit in multiple songs. They all manage to convey what's going on in his head even if you can't understand them.
The world is stupid (his favorite word on this album) in a way he can easily recognize but can't explain clearly, so he has to come at it from different angles. And it doesn't work at all literally, but somehow it works anyway. And maybe that's all that matters.
I think Butler mentioned in an interview that it was written about his girlfriend at the time who was always jetsetting about Europe, he never knew where she'd be one day from the next. Though I have no bloody idea what this part means in that context: "buy a car and watch it rust/ sister see them fall to dust/they fall around /in another crowded room/paint me like the shirt i'm in/honestly "
@FolsomFred To really get any of the songs on the first album, I think you have to listen to all of the other songs. The "fall around" part gets used multiple times in this song, and it also appears in other songs. So does falling to dust, being alone in a crowded room, people painting each other…
@FolsomFred To really get any of the songs on the first album, I think you have to listen to all of the other songs. The "fall around" part gets used multiple times in this song, and it also appears in other songs. So does falling to dust, being alone in a crowded room, people painting each other…
So, what does it all mean? I don't think Butler himself even knew. He had a swirl of imagines in his head since he was 14, and he was trying to find the songs they fit in, and many of them...
So, what does it all mean? I don't think Butler himself even knew. He had a swirl of imagines in his head since he was 14, and he was trying to find the songs they fit in, and many of them turned out to fit in multiple songs. They all manage to convey what's going on in his head even if you can't understand them.
The world is stupid (his favorite word on this album) in a way he can easily recognize but can't explain clearly, so he has to come at it from different angles. And it doesn't work at all literally, but somehow it works anyway. And maybe that's all that matters.