This song is only half about the first-person view. It’s also about reflecting on your own older years, life, experiences.
“I wonder what she bought it for” doesn’t refer to money, it’s about what choices and sacrifices she suffered
This is one of the most empathetic songs I’ve ever heard. Author can almost feel themselves in the previous homeowner/departed’s situation.
It starts out with a depressed narrator. Reluctant to go even for a car ride, much less far outside town. Depressed about everything, including suburban life. Change of scenery hasnt’t helped.
By the end of the song, it’s gone from a hopeless lamentation to a wishful/hopeful mood and lyrics
Perhaps the woman who own the home before here was an inspiration. Kept a nice garden. Maybe she lived alone. (A whole new story)
Seeing the handrail in the shower is a very real sign of aging, frailty.
The storyline’s buyer is picturing their own future, aging, being alone, body deteriorating. This becomes existential.
“Spare half million” lines are about narrator being pessimistic that someone would knock down thus perfectly good home because it isn’t “brand new”
This song is only half about the first-person view. It’s also about reflecting on your own older years, life, experiences.
“I wonder what she bought it for” doesn’t refer to money, it’s about what choices and sacrifices she suffered
This is one of the most empathetic songs I’ve ever heard. Author can almost feel themselves in the previous homeowner/departed’s situation.
It starts out with a depressed narrator. Reluctant to go even for a car ride, much less far outside town. Depressed about everything, including suburban life. Change of scenery hasnt’t helped.
By the end of the song, it’s gone from a hopeless lamentation to a wishful/hopeful mood and lyrics
Perhaps the woman who own the home before here was an inspiration. Kept a nice garden. Maybe she lived alone. (A whole new story)
Seeing the handrail in the shower is a very real sign of aging, frailty.
The storyline’s buyer is picturing their own future, aging, being alone, body deteriorating. This becomes existential.
“Spare half million” lines are about narrator being pessimistic that someone would knock down thus perfectly good home because it isn’t “brand new”