The beginning lyrics imply escape from all the news about war, genocide, etc that we're often so bombarded with these days, and contrasts it with a bit of a 19th century Romantic era image, of escaping the big urban problems and instead favoring the beautiful countryside I think all of us have dreamed of escaping.
However, I don't think the song is about escaping the urban world but rather our desire of escaping life's problems and abandoning them. The rest of the song's lyrics seem to be a mix of not only escapism but I think depression and perhaps the feeling of abandonment. It seems that the protagonist in this song suffered some kind of bad event to them that is never specified, perhaps a break-up, a death, being laid-off, or anything of the like. "I'm going to go to a bar, where is the jukebox is on" implies the protagonist has gotten drunk, something a lot of us do as relief. "I'm going to go to the country" perhaps implies that the protagonist has taken a "vacation", away from their problems.
All in all, a very beautiful song, something that talks about our all too common reaction of running away from problems rather than dealing with them.
The beginning lyrics imply escape from all the news about war, genocide, etc that we're often so bombarded with these days, and contrasts it with a bit of a 19th century Romantic era image, of escaping the big urban problems and instead favoring the beautiful countryside I think all of us have dreamed of escaping.
However, I don't think the song is about escaping the urban world but rather our desire of escaping life's problems and abandoning them. The rest of the song's lyrics seem to be a mix of not only escapism but I think depression and perhaps the feeling of abandonment. It seems that the protagonist in this song suffered some kind of bad event to them that is never specified, perhaps a break-up, a death, being laid-off, or anything of the like. "I'm going to go to a bar, where is the jukebox is on" implies the protagonist has gotten drunk, something a lot of us do as relief. "I'm going to go to the country" perhaps implies that the protagonist has taken a "vacation", away from their problems.
All in all, a very beautiful song, something that talks about our all too common reaction of running away from problems rather than dealing with them.