This is another amazing song that i love. However i believe many people have mistaken its message.
I believe this song is about Elliot's alcoholism/ drug addiction. Elliot sings as if he is talking to the drink/drugs. This is not uncommon for him to do, considering how he sung as if to his depression in the song 'miss misery' and drink in 'between the bars.'
This also fits to this song, where he sings as if his life would be so much easier if he never met her, meaning alcohol/ drugs.
Elliot sings about it as a bad thing that happened to him, and now he has to forget about it, which would make his life better. As if he has to get over it.
The reason i don't believe Elliot is singing about a girl is because he repeats the phrase "got a long way to go, I'm getting further away." This is consistent with his need to recover from his addition, to break the habit through rehab but because he is addicted he knows he is getting worse. He is continually drinking/taking drugs which he knows is terrible for him, making it harder to break the habit/ reliance on them.
In a sense, like many of Elliot's songs, this is a beautiful but very tragic song about him in despair. His honesty and cryptic messages are easy to mistake which makes his songs so powerful.
@mattv3c I think you're right that it involves alienation and despair due to drugs, which would have contributed to his sense of losing a personal battle and "getting further away" from that sense of being healthy and OK physically and psychologically. I've never had a problem with heavy alcohol use although I definitely relate to that sense of slipping away from friends, family and society due to personal troubles. Elliot puts these feelings so directly, so simply and so perfectly...
@mattv3c I think you're right that it involves alienation and despair due to drugs, which would have contributed to his sense of losing a personal battle and "getting further away" from that sense of being healthy and OK physically and psychologically. I've never had a problem with heavy alcohol use although I definitely relate to that sense of slipping away from friends, family and society due to personal troubles. Elliot puts these feelings so directly, so simply and so perfectly...
This is another amazing song that i love. However i believe many people have mistaken its message.
I believe this song is about Elliot's alcoholism/ drug addiction. Elliot sings as if he is talking to the drink/drugs. This is not uncommon for him to do, considering how he sung as if to his depression in the song 'miss misery' and drink in 'between the bars.'
This also fits to this song, where he sings as if his life would be so much easier if he never met her, meaning alcohol/ drugs.
Elliot sings about it as a bad thing that happened to him, and now he has to forget about it, which would make his life better. As if he has to get over it.
The reason i don't believe Elliot is singing about a girl is because he repeats the phrase "got a long way to go, I'm getting further away." This is consistent with his need to recover from his addition, to break the habit through rehab but because he is addicted he knows he is getting worse. He is continually drinking/taking drugs which he knows is terrible for him, making it harder to break the habit/ reliance on them.
In a sense, like many of Elliot's songs, this is a beautiful but very tragic song about him in despair. His honesty and cryptic messages are easy to mistake which makes his songs so powerful.
@mattv3c I think you're right that it involves alienation and despair due to drugs, which would have contributed to his sense of losing a personal battle and "getting further away" from that sense of being healthy and OK physically and psychologically. I've never had a problem with heavy alcohol use although I definitely relate to that sense of slipping away from friends, family and society due to personal troubles. Elliot puts these feelings so directly, so simply and so perfectly...
@mattv3c I think you're right that it involves alienation and despair due to drugs, which would have contributed to his sense of losing a personal battle and "getting further away" from that sense of being healthy and OK physically and psychologically. I've never had a problem with heavy alcohol use although I definitely relate to that sense of slipping away from friends, family and society due to personal troubles. Elliot puts these feelings so directly, so simply and so perfectly...