This may be my favorite song on Southeastern, if it's possible to pin down one.
I think the song makes a very good punchline to the album. Most of the themes of the album center around the downtrodden. Slices of life of people who have made choices that lead them to misery.
This song continues that theme, showing a few examples of people who are in similar situations. Drug addiction, suicide, widowed. These stories are all tragic and represent extremes of the misery that can come with living.
But the punchline is that "on a global scale" that our lives, no matter how depressing and hopeless they may seem, are relatively easy. There's always someone worse off, if that's any consolation.
It is my favorite song on the album. I think you hit the main themes. It is about hardship, depression, alcoholism, etc.. He chronicles a lot of pain but does kind of qualify his remarks by bringing up hardship other cultures have to face and then by finally saying that with time, some the hardship becomes easier to deal with. It is a sad song for sure, but not one with a totally bleak outlook.
It is my favorite song on the album. I think you hit the main themes. It is about hardship, depression, alcoholism, etc.. He chronicles a lot of pain but does kind of qualify his remarks by bringing up hardship other cultures have to face and then by finally saying that with time, some the hardship becomes easier to deal with. It is a sad song for sure, but not one with a totally bleak outlook.
This may be my favorite song on Southeastern, if it's possible to pin down one. I think the song makes a very good punchline to the album. Most of the themes of the album center around the downtrodden. Slices of life of people who have made choices that lead them to misery. This song continues that theme, showing a few examples of people who are in similar situations. Drug addiction, suicide, widowed. These stories are all tragic and represent extremes of the misery that can come with living. But the punchline is that "on a global scale" that our lives, no matter how depressing and hopeless they may seem, are relatively easy. There's always someone worse off, if that's any consolation.
It is my favorite song on the album. I think you hit the main themes. It is about hardship, depression, alcoholism, etc.. He chronicles a lot of pain but does kind of qualify his remarks by bringing up hardship other cultures have to face and then by finally saying that with time, some the hardship becomes easier to deal with. It is a sad song for sure, but not one with a totally bleak outlook.
It is my favorite song on the album. I think you hit the main themes. It is about hardship, depression, alcoholism, etc.. He chronicles a lot of pain but does kind of qualify his remarks by bringing up hardship other cultures have to face and then by finally saying that with time, some the hardship becomes easier to deal with. It is a sad song for sure, but not one with a totally bleak outlook.