I love this song so maybe I'm the laughing stock here!
I've always had a bit of a dark view about these lyrics. The music itself builds in intensity and has a huge impact on the listener (on me anyway) emotionally and even physically.
I think the lyrics are alluding to the effect of the song itself, that music ...and Grandaddy as a band...has the power to move a stranger in such a powerful way. Yet ultimately where is the meaning...even with the ability to illicit that sort response in another human what is the achievement, the satisfaction? Ultimately all human endeavor is futile and in vain...all actions have the same result within a finite life.
That's what I always took from the lyrics anyway...truly amazing yet utterly soul destroying song...the sort of dark beauty that I love finding in the world....thank you Grandaddy!
I love this song so maybe I'm the laughing stock here!
I've always had a bit of a dark view about these lyrics. The music itself builds in intensity and has a huge impact on the listener (on me anyway) emotionally and even physically.
I think the lyrics are alluding to the effect of the song itself, that music ...and Grandaddy as a band...has the power to move a stranger in such a powerful way. Yet ultimately where is the meaning...even with the ability to illicit that sort response in another human what is the achievement, the satisfaction? Ultimately all human endeavor is futile and in vain...all actions have the same result within a finite life.
That's what I always took from the lyrics anyway...truly amazing yet utterly soul destroying song...the sort of dark beauty that I love finding in the world....thank you Grandaddy!
@TerryOStype i think you got it! Thank you
@TerryOStype i think you got it! Thank you