The old man is him. This song is about recognizing that childhood is over, boyhood is gone. Every highway longer. Every girl less real than the last girl. Every chance for radical change lost. He just ends up doing the same thing. He lost the simple days when pleasure was a favorite drink and worry was finishing your icecream. He lost his sense of place, his box and rock filled alley are long gone.
Now he sees the horrors of the world, the horrors of the self (am I a liar?), and the horrors of the self in the world.
This is where God gives up screaming: There is nothing left. I can only show you the world, the self, and the self in the world.
@Ultranaut - I mostly agree but I don't think god "gives up". I think god is just saying "There's nothing left to tell" - He has given us the answers, it is up to us to understand.
I'm being pedantic here but the message is slightly more positive than your otherwise correct interpretation.
God is not horrified he means for us to understand - oh well
@Ultranaut - I mostly agree but I don't think god "gives up". I think god is just saying "There's nothing left to tell" - He has given us the answers, it is up to us to understand.
I'm being pedantic here but the message is slightly more positive than your otherwise correct interpretation.
God is not horrified he means for us to understand - oh well
The old man is him. This song is about recognizing that childhood is over, boyhood is gone. Every highway longer. Every girl less real than the last girl. Every chance for radical change lost. He just ends up doing the same thing. He lost the simple days when pleasure was a favorite drink and worry was finishing your icecream. He lost his sense of place, his box and rock filled alley are long gone.
Now he sees the horrors of the world, the horrors of the self (am I a liar?), and the horrors of the self in the world.
This is where God gives up screaming: There is nothing left. I can only show you the world, the self, and the self in the world.
TO God's horror Jack can only say, "oh well"
@Ultranaut - I mostly agree but I don't think god "gives up". I think god is just saying "There's nothing left to tell" - He has given us the answers, it is up to us to understand. I'm being pedantic here but the message is slightly more positive than your otherwise correct interpretation. God is not horrified he means for us to understand - oh well
@Ultranaut - I mostly agree but I don't think god "gives up". I think god is just saying "There's nothing left to tell" - He has given us the answers, it is up to us to understand. I'm being pedantic here but the message is slightly more positive than your otherwise correct interpretation. God is not horrified he means for us to understand - oh well