This song like others by Pavement is about a turning point, action or inaction, overcoming cynicism and losing contact with the reality of a moment. The narrator expands moments by stepping outside himself and self-judging, but this kind of introspection leaves him powerless, inert.
"Keep my advent to yourself/because it's nothing I don't like"
Vague statement of indecision - so what is it you DO like? The narrator is questioning whether to embrace a change that has come into his life. "Is it a crisis or a boring change?" He seems to not want to decide.
"Believe in what you want to do/And do you think that it's a major flaw/when they rise up in the falling rain?"
In the face of the cynicism of the person he's addressing, he asks is it so awful to try to overcome stasis (rise up)?
"And if you stay around/with your knuckles ground down/the trial's over, the weapon's found"
If you stay to what you know and what's comfortable and don't renew your life and situation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Fait accompli, you are to blame.
This song seems mostly to be an internal dialogue for the narrator, but we can't ignore that it's intermittently staged as a man talking to a woman with whom he had a relationship that is now either dying or long dead.
"I've been sitting here too long."
The relationship is dead; stasis must be overcome. Either a) because the childish cynicism that made for "gold soundz" in the "August sun" is no longer sustainable or b) because the old love has devolved into the kind of relationship where many discussions are about getting the "last word" in.
This song like others by Pavement is about a turning point, action or inaction, overcoming cynicism and losing contact with the reality of a moment. The narrator expands moments by stepping outside himself and self-judging, but this kind of introspection leaves him powerless, inert.
"Keep my advent to yourself/because it's nothing I don't like"
Vague statement of indecision - so what is it you DO like? The narrator is questioning whether to embrace a change that has come into his life. "Is it a crisis or a boring change?" He seems to not want to decide.
"Believe in what you want to do/And do you think that it's a major flaw/when they rise up in the falling rain?"
In the face of the cynicism of the person he's addressing, he asks is it so awful to try to overcome stasis (rise up)?
"And if you stay around/with your knuckles ground down/the trial's over, the weapon's found"
If you stay to what you know and what's comfortable and don't renew your life and situation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Fait accompli, you are to blame.
This song seems mostly to be an internal dialogue for the narrator, but we can't ignore that it's intermittently staged as a man talking to a woman with whom he had a relationship that is now either dying or long dead.
"I've been sitting here too long."
The relationship is dead; stasis must be overcome. Either a) because the childish cynicism that made for "gold soundz" in the "August sun" is no longer sustainable or b) because the old love has devolved into the kind of relationship where many discussions are about getting the "last word" in.