"How can a man feel anything
When all he ever got was sympathy"
We surround ourselves with friends who often tell us what we want to hear to comfort us, but that doesn't help us own up to the mistakes we make.
"You're a fool for wanting everything
It couldn't be much fun being a millionaire to one
Cause a million's just a million of one thing"
The more stuff we have, the less we actually have. Greed is a distraction from the simple and non-material things in life that is worth more than anything.
This part almost brought a tear to my eye:
"All of that aside I never meant to make her cry
But crying is just the baby inside
The ones that mess around that tend to fuss and bring us down
Tugging at your lips to make you frown"
Looking at crying as the "id" inside of us that selfishly wants to get its way, and looking at self-destructive, self-pitying people trying to bring us down, I think these are interesting ways of looking at sadness. I think it's two different things, though. The first is something we all feel in the back of our minds when we don't get our way, the baby inside of us screaming and crying and making a scene, thinking that will still work. The second are people who never matured past that...
I think this song is a conglomeration of different events from his relationship, but since they are all something we can relate to, it's really a song about us all. He criticizes the relationship, but he also seems loyal to it, even if it is in a distant way ("She's waited all this time, and I suppose she has the right" "I hope he understands when he's a little bit older, I always wanted the best for him")...I sense some abandonment issues, especially in the last line where he talks about getting out of here. Maybe it's guilt about being on the road and leaving his lover and kid, with a dramatized story to reflect how he feels (he doesn't sound old enough to really have a grandkid)
My two favorite lines in the song:
"How can a man feel anything When all he ever got was sympathy" We surround ourselves with friends who often tell us what we want to hear to comfort us, but that doesn't help us own up to the mistakes we make.
"You're a fool for wanting everything It couldn't be much fun being a millionaire to one Cause a million's just a million of one thing" The more stuff we have, the less we actually have. Greed is a distraction from the simple and non-material things in life that is worth more than anything.
This part almost brought a tear to my eye: "All of that aside I never meant to make her cry But crying is just the baby inside The ones that mess around that tend to fuss and bring us down Tugging at your lips to make you frown" Looking at crying as the "id" inside of us that selfishly wants to get its way, and looking at self-destructive, self-pitying people trying to bring us down, I think these are interesting ways of looking at sadness. I think it's two different things, though. The first is something we all feel in the back of our minds when we don't get our way, the baby inside of us screaming and crying and making a scene, thinking that will still work. The second are people who never matured past that...
I think this song is a conglomeration of different events from his relationship, but since they are all something we can relate to, it's really a song about us all. He criticizes the relationship, but he also seems loyal to it, even if it is in a distant way ("She's waited all this time, and I suppose she has the right" "I hope he understands when he's a little bit older, I always wanted the best for him")...I sense some abandonment issues, especially in the last line where he talks about getting out of here. Maybe it's guilt about being on the road and leaving his lover and kid, with a dramatized story to reflect how he feels (he doesn't sound old enough to really have a grandkid)