No interpretation so far? OK, i'll give it a try. Not that easy for a non-native speaker, though...
I believe this song deals with Jim's mixed feelings about his home town El Paso when he decided moving back after the split of ATD-I and settle down. After travelling the world to find that at the end "it's all the same" and being in different places is not making him happier, he returns and falls in love with his hometown, "at fences down" - being in an emotionally weak disposition ("distraught by fortune, debranded by fame").
He feels lonely as there is not much around and many of his friends "skated north", left the city to find their luck somewhere else. But he knows, for him it was just an empty promise ("it seemed to good to be true"), and despite feeling lonely from time to time, this is the place where he wants stay.
Does this make sense to you? Can the term "fences down" be understood like this?
No interpretation so far? OK, i'll give it a try. Not that easy for a non-native speaker, though...
I believe this song deals with Jim's mixed feelings about his home town El Paso when he decided moving back after the split of ATD-I and settle down. After travelling the world to find that at the end "it's all the same" and being in different places is not making him happier, he returns and falls in love with his hometown, "at fences down" - being in an emotionally weak disposition ("distraught by fortune, debranded by fame").
He feels lonely as there is not much around and many of his friends "skated north", left the city to find their luck somewhere else. But he knows, for him it was just an empty promise ("it seemed to good to be true"), and despite feeling lonely from time to time, this is the place where he wants stay.
Does this make sense to you? Can the term "fences down" be understood like this?
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