This to me is about a man whose youthful romantic delusions are starting to fade with maturity. The songs begins, in sound and lyric, in a kind of romantic rapture with, fittingly, the singer being almost unaccompanied. Then it kicks to life with a he said/she said structure, in which his mood of rapture is brought back to earth with the actual presence and demands of the other. The genius for me is the chorus: The "I keep falling..." sets up the idea of a happy, Beatles-esque sentiment, which is then undercut with the shift from major to minor chord and the kicker "...maybe half the time." It's a man who can't sustain the romantic illusions of his youth. The title of the songs is cryptic, but I believe refers both to the disappointment/unhappiness he feels in himself and also imposes on his partner, for whom he can no longer be the perfect poet-lover.
@saintjy Following your interpretation, "it's all the rage back home" may refer to the point that all of that what was keeping this man standing is back in the past and doesn't work anymore, so "it's all the rage back home" and he keeps falling because things doesn't work like they were before
@saintjy Following your interpretation, "it's all the rage back home" may refer to the point that all of that what was keeping this man standing is back in the past and doesn't work anymore, so "it's all the rage back home" and he keeps falling because things doesn't work like they were before
This to me is about a man whose youthful romantic delusions are starting to fade with maturity. The songs begins, in sound and lyric, in a kind of romantic rapture with, fittingly, the singer being almost unaccompanied. Then it kicks to life with a he said/she said structure, in which his mood of rapture is brought back to earth with the actual presence and demands of the other. The genius for me is the chorus: The "I keep falling..." sets up the idea of a happy, Beatles-esque sentiment, which is then undercut with the shift from major to minor chord and the kicker "...maybe half the time." It's a man who can't sustain the romantic illusions of his youth. The title of the songs is cryptic, but I believe refers both to the disappointment/unhappiness he feels in himself and also imposes on his partner, for whom he can no longer be the perfect poet-lover.
@saintjy Following your interpretation, "it's all the rage back home" may refer to the point that all of that what was keeping this man standing is back in the past and doesn't work anymore, so "it's all the rage back home" and he keeps falling because things doesn't work like they were before
@saintjy Following your interpretation, "it's all the rage back home" may refer to the point that all of that what was keeping this man standing is back in the past and doesn't work anymore, so "it's all the rage back home" and he keeps falling because things doesn't work like they were before