The first time I heard this song I thought it was kind of goofy. The fifth time I heard it I thought it was brilliant and beautiful. As so many of the Hip songs do, this one grows on you in an amazing way. I'm struck by the imagery of the first few lines, and the raw emotional feeling in "Are you going through something? Cause I am too". Just lovely.
I think the three passages are like morning (I am scared and lonely and don't want to go to work), daytime (working my dumb job, just trying to get ahead and rise above all this) and evening (back to my unhappy home and my unrealized dreams and real fears). And then the question of whether I should just end it all, and the argument for seeing it through to the end.
Just my two-cents-worth. Regardless, I love this song.
The first time I heard this song I thought it was kind of goofy. The fifth time I heard it I thought it was brilliant and beautiful. As so many of the Hip songs do, this one grows on you in an amazing way. I'm struck by the imagery of the first few lines, and the raw emotional feeling in "Are you going through something? Cause I am too". Just lovely.
I think the three passages are like morning (I am scared and lonely and don't want to go to work), daytime (working my dumb job, just trying to get ahead and rise above all this) and evening (back to my unhappy home and my unrealized dreams and real fears). And then the question of whether I should just end it all, and the argument for seeing it through to the end.
Just my two-cents-worth. Regardless, I love this song.