I got into this album via the music first. The vibe always seemed to improve my mood and often I felt like singing along with all the tunes and dance a little. Listening to it just felt good. The lyrics seemed cryptic whenever I tuned in to listen to the words, though there would always be a memorable line I'd pick up along the way. But I was much too happy just bathing in the music to focus on 'meaning' ;)
Once I did, I keep finding valuable advice and reminders in many of the songs. This one reminds me to live more and let go of things that pull me back and throw me off track when I could just as well be moving on. I remember a line from another song 'Nobody likes to be told' I think it went. I feel the opening lines are written in a sentiment that is sort of respectful of that, like a friend telling you something you don't want to hear but need to be told. Maybe the following lines mean it's a serious person talking ('no kidding' :)), or it's actually about the basket ball game. I imagine it was a game that ended in a row, maybe because of a sore loser or a dispute about some judgement. Anyway, it's just a game. No need to start a war over such a thing. So he decides not to play basket ball anymore. He likes the game, but not the unhealthy competitiveness. Like he did with fencing. Like he was able to get over unrequited love. Lovely girls he sure would have liked to kiss, but it didn't work out so he moved on.
Just one of many files that life throws on an overcorwded desk full of tiny notes to get hung up on. Besides the unhappy stuff, there's so much to take in, so much to experience in life, you will never even be able to tell all of it or express as much (out) as you take in. So really try to live your life. It flows like a river and skips and rolls. And when you flow with it, you're at peace with yourself, like in a chapel (or any other place/setting that makes you feel quiet and filled with a good, comfortable feeling). Flow, because life is short, and nothing lasts forever. So many great things have come and gone before us. So many lives have been lived, good and strong lives, but they're gone now. So he doesn't want to get stuck thinking about the past, and argue over friendly basket ball games and sports, or mourn all the relations that somehow didn't happen,... We might tell him he's got plenty, plenty of time. But how can we/he know? Nobody knows when it's over, how long things stay big.
It has sort of a similar theme as Lucille #1, perhaps. Anyway, that's just what I hear in it, which helps me, so I'm glad I had the chance to come across these songs.
I got into this album via the music first. The vibe always seemed to improve my mood and often I felt like singing along with all the tunes and dance a little. Listening to it just felt good. The lyrics seemed cryptic whenever I tuned in to listen to the words, though there would always be a memorable line I'd pick up along the way. But I was much too happy just bathing in the music to focus on 'meaning' ;)
Once I did, I keep finding valuable advice and reminders in many of the songs. This one reminds me to live more and let go of things that pull me back and throw me off track when I could just as well be moving on. I remember a line from another song 'Nobody likes to be told' I think it went. I feel the opening lines are written in a sentiment that is sort of respectful of that, like a friend telling you something you don't want to hear but need to be told. Maybe the following lines mean it's a serious person talking ('no kidding' :)), or it's actually about the basket ball game. I imagine it was a game that ended in a row, maybe because of a sore loser or a dispute about some judgement. Anyway, it's just a game. No need to start a war over such a thing. So he decides not to play basket ball anymore. He likes the game, but not the unhealthy competitiveness. Like he did with fencing. Like he was able to get over unrequited love. Lovely girls he sure would have liked to kiss, but it didn't work out so he moved on.
Just one of many files that life throws on an overcorwded desk full of tiny notes to get hung up on. Besides the unhappy stuff, there's so much to take in, so much to experience in life, you will never even be able to tell all of it or express as much (out) as you take in. So really try to live your life. It flows like a river and skips and rolls. And when you flow with it, you're at peace with yourself, like in a chapel (or any other place/setting that makes you feel quiet and filled with a good, comfortable feeling). Flow, because life is short, and nothing lasts forever. So many great things have come and gone before us. So many lives have been lived, good and strong lives, but they're gone now. So he doesn't want to get stuck thinking about the past, and argue over friendly basket ball games and sports, or mourn all the relations that somehow didn't happen,... We might tell him he's got plenty, plenty of time. But how can we/he know? Nobody knows when it's over, how long things stay big.
It has sort of a similar theme as Lucille #1, perhaps. Anyway, that's just what I hear in it, which helps me, so I'm glad I had the chance to come across these songs.