Harness Your Hopes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Sandra Leigh 

Cover art for Harness Your Hopes lyrics by Pavement

The way I am interpreting this a harness is a very restraining thing controlled usually by one person.

It sounds to me like he is afraid of being in this commitment harness, where he is trapped.

The next lines make me think he is a man and still wants to feel alive look at other women even flirt a little.

Some of the lines don’t make sense to me.

It seems like the rations line is referring to something like he is getting rations of his freedom someone must cash in

I think Donna De Verona may be a famous Olympian. These lines make me think she is an amazing person but the relationship is like living in a coma, a harness.

Last lines his heart is open. I kind of think he wants a relationship but doesn’t want to be trapped or harnessed.