This songwriting is such a professional job. I love it when on the surface it seems that lyrics are boy-girl relationship stuff but the true meaning is so much more.
To me, the narrator singer is America personified, or more specifically, our country's constitution, and the song is directed towards us. Though this song is over a decade old now, the 'darling of the chic' is timeless. Present or past, it could represent a person for sure, but I think of it as an ideology, maybe religious, maybe not, that we in our twisted thinking try to fit, or rather stuff, into the the container that truly is the core of principles on which this nation was built. Will those principles ever have their time come around again? We'll see.
This songwriting is such a professional job. I love it when on the surface it seems that lyrics are boy-girl relationship stuff but the true meaning is so much more.
To me, the narrator singer is America personified, or more specifically, our country's constitution, and the song is directed towards us. Though this song is over a decade old now, the 'darling of the chic' is timeless. Present or past, it could represent a person for sure, but I think of it as an ideology, maybe religious, maybe not, that we in our twisted thinking try to fit, or rather stuff, into the the container that truly is the core of principles on which this nation was built. Will those principles ever have their time come around again? We'll see.