This song is pretty much perfect and probably my favorite of all Ray's tunes.
I think its about growing up. Life's hard when you're young and starting out. You've got struggles with finding work, losing and gaining friends, and feeling like you've got to accomplish something big to make something out of life. Seems like he is talking to all these folks who never did what they wanted in life, and he thinks its sad. Towards the end of the song, he decides its worth at least attempting to do what he loves, even if its just turns into another failure. And he doesn't seem to even care if it is b/c he doesn't want to "spend his life building walls". There are a lot of messages going on in this song, but that's my take on it. Do what matters to you and stop worrying so much about failure. My favorite lyric in the song is "it's not living if what you're doing feels like dying".
This song is pretty much perfect and probably my favorite of all Ray's tunes.
I think its about growing up. Life's hard when you're young and starting out. You've got struggles with finding work, losing and gaining friends, and feeling like you've got to accomplish something big to make something out of life. Seems like he is talking to all these folks who never did what they wanted in life, and he thinks its sad. Towards the end of the song, he decides its worth at least attempting to do what he loves, even if its just turns into another failure. And he doesn't seem to even care if it is b/c he doesn't want to "spend his life building walls". There are a lot of messages going on in this song, but that's my take on it. Do what matters to you and stop worrying so much about failure. My favorite lyric in the song is "it's not living if what you're doing feels like dying".