The song seems sarcastic to me- like everyone else thinks being a musician is so easy and all you have to do is pick up a second hand guitar and instant fame will happen with no real effort. If that were true, everyone would have a music career. The truth is, it is more work than most people can even imagine to be a real musician- not a wannabe. Even very talented musicians are met with failure if they don’t have enough work ethic. Everyone else comes home from 9-5 work and vegges out in front of the tube all night and take up hobbies to kill time, while musicians work nearly every waking hour and even just walking down the street they are working out musical details in their heads. Even the story of the pizza delivery guy confirms that the band had been working their a$$es off on the demo to this song and were burned out in frustration when the answer came from an unlikely source. I think this is a song about how people generally perceive musicians’ fame as coming easy when in fact it is more work than most people are willing to do.
The song seems sarcastic to me- like everyone else thinks being a musician is so easy and all you have to do is pick up a second hand guitar and instant fame will happen with no real effort. If that were true, everyone would have a music career. The truth is, it is more work than most people can even imagine to be a real musician- not a wannabe. Even very talented musicians are met with failure if they don’t have enough work ethic. Everyone else comes home from 9-5 work and vegges out in front of the tube all night and take up hobbies to kill time, while musicians work nearly every waking hour and even just walking down the street they are working out musical details in their heads. Even the story of the pizza delivery guy confirms that the band had been working their a$$es off on the demo to this song and were burned out in frustration when the answer came from an unlikely source. I think this is a song about how people generally perceive musicians’ fame as coming easy when in fact it is more work than most people are willing to do.
@joe1142486 EXACTLY! The tune is sung in the ironic tone. The key is the one line:
@joe1142486 EXACTLY! The tune is sung in the ironic tone. The key is the one line:
If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
Every professional musician I know works hard as hell but everybody thinks it's easy and just fun lying in the sun.
Every professional musician I know works hard as hell but everybody thinks it's easy and just fun lying in the sun.