This song appears to be about someone who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, but only he knows it. Perhaps Brandon thought this way about himself at one point.
I've often found myself in places I didn't feel I belonged. This song speaks to me very deeply. There is an air of either unrelenting optimism or fatalistic capitulation...or perhaps both, which is common in times of deep emotion. I'd like to think he is embodying the "screw it" mentality while looking forward to better - or at least more familiar - things to come when he returns "home." However, part of me wants to believe he is also throwing in the towel in the "screw it" sense and wishing to be "carried home" to a place where he can forget about everything either for a while or, more sadly, forever.
This could also mean the "not being afraid" is, for the optimist, a fresh start and damn the consequences. For the fatalistic pessimist, it's the lie told to ease the pain of the past, present, and short-term future.
I'd like to see him as the optimist genuinely looking to start over in a new context. Experience has taught me the fatalist is more often the reality behind the glib facade of hopefulness.
Only the writer will know...and each listener will interpret as he or she sees fit.
This song appears to be about someone who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, but only he knows it. Perhaps Brandon thought this way about himself at one point.
I've often found myself in places I didn't feel I belonged. This song speaks to me very deeply. There is an air of either unrelenting optimism or fatalistic capitulation...or perhaps both, which is common in times of deep emotion. I'd like to think he is embodying the "screw it" mentality while looking forward to better - or at least more familiar - things to come when he returns "home." However, part of me wants to believe he is also throwing in the towel in the "screw it" sense and wishing to be "carried home" to a place where he can forget about everything either for a while or, more sadly, forever.
This could also mean the "not being afraid" is, for the optimist, a fresh start and damn the consequences. For the fatalistic pessimist, it's the lie told to ease the pain of the past, present, and short-term future.
I'd like to see him as the optimist genuinely looking to start over in a new context. Experience has taught me the fatalist is more often the reality behind the glib facade of hopefulness.
Only the writer will know...and each listener will interpret as he or she sees fit.