my personal interpretation of this song is that he is speaking to a ?friend/girlfriend?, someone who has known some unhappiness in early life as apparently he has, grown up in challenging circumstances and is trying to find a way to drop what was bad and preserve what was good; trying to find themselves in an unfriendly world, fighting things like addiction (your daddy's shitty shake grass sounds like a pot reference to me, if i ever heard one lol) and the emptiness that plagues modern life (the many references to plastic coatings, freeze-drying, grocery lists and telephone bills, etc, evokes this simply but powerfully).
one of my favourite bands of all-time, and canadian! very proud of the excellent music that this country manages to produce--one of the few worthwhile contributions to the world that a nation can make that i think is worthy of being proud of.
my personal interpretation of this song is that he is speaking to a ?friend/girlfriend?, someone who has known some unhappiness in early life as apparently he has, grown up in challenging circumstances and is trying to find a way to drop what was bad and preserve what was good; trying to find themselves in an unfriendly world, fighting things like addiction (your daddy's shitty shake grass sounds like a pot reference to me, if i ever heard one lol) and the emptiness that plagues modern life (the many references to plastic coatings, freeze-drying, grocery lists and telephone bills, etc, evokes this simply but powerfully).
one of my favourite bands of all-time, and canadian! very proud of the excellent music that this country manages to produce--one of the few worthwhile contributions to the world that a nation can make that i think is worthy of being proud of.