A song of nostalgia, escapism and maybe for some - reality as in the now. For the author it's biographical but yet we can all relate to some of its sentiments and the frustrations in the daily grind. It is a track from 'The Healing Game' released in 1997 (a sort of over produced album) but bang up-to-date with life in the 21st Century. The last verse is good with "tripe" the inevitable Ulsterism. Van once said at a gig when introducing this song that it was for people who were not in control of their life which sort of meant everyone!
"Now everything is so complicated, just to speak or use the phone
Some people try to use me, just 'cause they don't have their own
Don't know who's round the corner, trying to sell me some more tripe
It used to be my life, it used to be my life".
A song of nostalgia, escapism and maybe for some - reality as in the now. For the author it's biographical but yet we can all relate to some of its sentiments and the frustrations in the daily grind. It is a track from 'The Healing Game' released in 1997 (a sort of over produced album) but bang up-to-date with life in the 21st Century. The last verse is good with "tripe" the inevitable Ulsterism. Van once said at a gig when introducing this song that it was for people who were not in control of their life which sort of meant everyone!
"Now everything is so complicated, just to speak or use the phone Some people try to use me, just 'cause they don't have their own Don't know who's round the corner, trying to sell me some more tripe It used to be my life, it used to be my life".