I love this song because it reminds me of someone in my family.
To me this song is about constantly chasing money and the next promotion or what have you. Mark is basically saying you have a choice, you can spend your life chasing paper and prestige or you can slow down and actually experience life for what it is. In my experience I would gladly make $30k/year and have free time than make $60+ a year and live for work. I especially find the line
"Well I've found
The more I want the less I got"
to be very true. People need to be happy with what they have but that is understandably hard in a environment where one is constantly bombarded by images of whats "in" or the latest and greatest.
I love this song because it reminds me of someone in my family.
To me this song is about constantly chasing money and the next promotion or what have you. Mark is basically saying you have a choice, you can spend your life chasing paper and prestige or you can slow down and actually experience life for what it is. In my experience I would gladly make $30k/year and have free time than make $60+ a year and live for work. I especially find the line "Well I've found The more I want the less I got"
to be very true. People need to be happy with what they have but that is understandably hard in a environment where one is constantly bombarded by images of whats "in" or the latest and greatest.