Well here's what I got from this song (one of my favorites-btw) feel free to disagree:
Holy ghosts,
When do you come out to play?
'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,
He'd better start looking today.
-Nate's not big on religion, but he lives in a place where a lot of people are. People who claim to have been "found by Jesus." Nate's planning on leaving so he's joking that if he is going to be "found" the Lord needs to start looking soon, because he's about to leave
Last week my baby hit the slopes.
I spent the weekend setting traps in the road.
I should have been cutting out my eyelids,
you'll never guess what baby did when she got home.
-Nate's girlfriend (who i believe lived in NYC at the time) went skiing over the weekend, something fun and exciting whereas in Arizona, where Nate lives, there's not really anything fun to do. Instead he's planning his move to NYC which, because it's so far away requires several stops or "traps." The second two lines are about how boring Nate's life is compared with his girlfriend who did something else exciting when she got back from skiing.
So I drove until we both broke down.
-both him and the car
I was stranded in a border town
believing the motel TV would bring me to safety,
but between MTV and Mr. O'Reilly
I've come to find, that I can't be defined
so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross
Took one last look at the gold
as it shattered on a mountaintop
-at a motel in the middle of nowhere he turned on the tv hoping to find something comforting but found only things like MTV (reality shows I imagine) and the O'Reilly factor which, although they both have huge groups of fans, Nate doesn't have any interest in them and now any last doubts he had about leaving Arizona for NYC have vanished and he looks out at the mountains (Appalachians?) and sees the sun set or shatter over one of them.
-Now any last thought that he might not want to make the move
Well here's what I got from this song (one of my favorites-btw) feel free to disagree:
Holy ghosts, When do you come out to play? 'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me, He'd better start looking today.
-Nate's not big on religion, but he lives in a place where a lot of people are. People who claim to have been "found by Jesus." Nate's planning on leaving so he's joking that if he is going to be "found" the Lord needs to start looking soon, because he's about to leave
Last week my baby hit the slopes. I spent the weekend setting traps in the road. I should have been cutting out my eyelids, you'll never guess what baby did when she got home.
-Nate's girlfriend (who i believe lived in NYC at the time) went skiing over the weekend, something fun and exciting whereas in Arizona, where Nate lives, there's not really anything fun to do. Instead he's planning his move to NYC which, because it's so far away requires several stops or "traps." The second two lines are about how boring Nate's life is compared with his girlfriend who did something else exciting when she got back from skiing.
So I drove until we both broke down. -both him and the car
I was stranded in a border town believing the motel TV would bring me to safety, but between MTV and Mr. O'Reilly I've come to find, that I can't be defined so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross Took one last look at the gold as it shattered on a mountaintop
-at a motel in the middle of nowhere he turned on the tv hoping to find something comforting but found only things like MTV (reality shows I imagine) and the O'Reilly factor which, although they both have huge groups of fans, Nate doesn't have any interest in them and now any last doubts he had about leaving Arizona for NYC have vanished and he looks out at the mountains (Appalachians?) and sees the sun set or shatter over one of them.
-Now any last thought that he might not want to make the move