The changeling to me is a song about a certain artistic, intuitive, abstract form of alchemy. About almost an occult concept of an amorphous life. With which jim is absolutely in love with. Its vast. In the air you breathe, food you eat, in the sullen street. But the more noticeable and prominent thing in this piece than the lyrical expression is the absolutely playful, dope, bluesy and rolling tune and the overall cool, ballsy mood it has been sung in. I live uptown, I live downtown. I live all around. The way its sung, to me it intentionally depicts a certain kind of confident wisdom, that is almost mocking the pointless things the world is made of. Jim is recklessly in his ballsy mood mocking the world by his constant movement through life and its episodes, which he chooses to live without a single ounce of care. He is uptown. He is downtown. He is all around. He has money. He has none. But he can never be, truly, broke. As honestly, he doesn't give a single ounce of shit if he has all that. He is just changing, recklessly moving, taking up full frontally whatever is coming up his way like a king. The lizard king. Mocking people. Asking them to see him change. As he rolls through his constant state of movement, a state where everything is intentionally not constant or permanent. Its like the description of his love affair with uncertainty, and how it thrills him. He is a ballsy bohemian nomad. The Changeling. Randomly walking, absolutely loving every moment of this constantly evolving uncertainty. And in this whimsical arrogance, he is the king, he owns the world and the dumb people of the sullen street. Everyone. Everything.
The changeling to me is a song about a certain artistic, intuitive, abstract form of alchemy. About almost an occult concept of an amorphous life. With which jim is absolutely in love with. Its vast. In the air you breathe, food you eat, in the sullen street. But the more noticeable and prominent thing in this piece than the lyrical expression is the absolutely playful, dope, bluesy and rolling tune and the overall cool, ballsy mood it has been sung in. I live uptown, I live downtown. I live all around. The way its sung, to me it intentionally depicts a certain kind of confident wisdom, that is almost mocking the pointless things the world is made of. Jim is recklessly in his ballsy mood mocking the world by his constant movement through life and its episodes, which he chooses to live without a single ounce of care. He is uptown. He is downtown. He is all around. He has money. He has none. But he can never be, truly, broke. As honestly, he doesn't give a single ounce of shit if he has all that. He is just changing, recklessly moving, taking up full frontally whatever is coming up his way like a king. The lizard king. Mocking people. Asking them to see him change. As he rolls through his constant state of movement, a state where everything is intentionally not constant or permanent. Its like the description of his love affair with uncertainty, and how it thrills him. He is a ballsy bohemian nomad. The Changeling. Randomly walking, absolutely loving every moment of this constantly evolving uncertainty. And in this whimsical arrogance, he is the king, he owns the world and the dumb people of the sullen street. Everyone. Everything.