Like other songs on the Mutations album, this is about feeling alienated from a world of pleasure, comfort, and fun. The singer looks around and does not perceive all the pleasurable things that are supposed to be there. Instead he sees a foolish world that is falling apart, with no real joy in it. The part that throws me is the title and the reference to Maria. Clearly, it is someone the singer knows, and he is talking to her, but this is not a relationship song.
I like the music a lot also. It is sort of folky, jazzy, and slow, and has an old school vibe.
Like other songs on the Mutations album, this is about feeling alienated from a world of pleasure, comfort, and fun. The singer looks around and does not perceive all the pleasurable things that are supposed to be there. Instead he sees a foolish world that is falling apart, with no real joy in it. The part that throws me is the title and the reference to Maria. Clearly, it is someone the singer knows, and he is talking to her, but this is not a relationship song.
I like the music a lot also. It is sort of folky, jazzy, and slow, and has an old school vibe.