This is one of my favorite Counting Crows songs. It has a powerful effect on me when I listen to it that is hard to describe. Its interesting that someone thought it was about a prostitute who was trying to escape and was stuggling to begin a normal life, and that makes sense the more I think about it. However I've always thought that is was about a women who had a very rough childhood where she was abused or neglected by her parents and no one really cared about her. She has become an outcast and this has followed her into adulthood, and she's so afraid of being alone and facing her past that she gambles excessively and tries hard to please people who just want to use her, as she thinks that they are her friends. She probably lives in a dirty, run-down house or apartment that is littered with fast food wrappers, TV dinner trys, and soda cans and takes an anti-depressant every night to take to edge off, but contemplates overdosing and committing suicide. I really feel sorry for anyone who lives this life in reality.
This is one of my favorite Counting Crows songs. It has a powerful effect on me when I listen to it that is hard to describe. Its interesting that someone thought it was about a prostitute who was trying to escape and was stuggling to begin a normal life, and that makes sense the more I think about it. However I've always thought that is was about a women who had a very rough childhood where she was abused or neglected by her parents and no one really cared about her. She has become an outcast and this has followed her into adulthood, and she's so afraid of being alone and facing her past that she gambles excessively and tries hard to please people who just want to use her, as she thinks that they are her friends. She probably lives in a dirty, run-down house or apartment that is littered with fast food wrappers, TV dinner trys, and soda cans and takes an anti-depressant every night to take to edge off, but contemplates overdosing and committing suicide. I really feel sorry for anyone who lives this life in reality.