i think this is a model for an ideal place, that you can go, be with all your friends, not be judged, and watch life go by.
i actually believe that the "sunset grill" is a bar. the "working girls" are the girls who walk the street corners, and the "basket people" are the crazy drunks and druggies outside the bar. the "old man that's from the old world" is an older man - the bartender - who's "been there, done that", seen the world, and all he does is sit in the bar and tell stories about the war, or how life used to be and such.
in the second verse, he's talking about why people turn to drinking and running away to a bar as a safe haven, because this is why the world is so harsh.
the third verse refers to people who claim killing in the name of god, or because of this-and-that -- people who make excuses for things that are obviously unexcusable. he promises his girl that one day they'll move out of the city, and meanwhile, he'll stick by her side, and in the meantime, let's go have a drink. he keeps saying he might leave ["maybe we'll leave come springtime"], but it's so vague that it's obvious that he's built up such a comraderie and built their lives upon the chaos in the city that it'll be hard to leave. ["what would we do without all these jerks anyway?/ besides, all our friends are here."]
i think this is a model for an ideal place, that you can go, be with all your friends, not be judged, and watch life go by.
i actually believe that the "sunset grill" is a bar. the "working girls" are the girls who walk the street corners, and the "basket people" are the crazy drunks and druggies outside the bar. the "old man that's from the old world" is an older man - the bartender - who's "been there, done that", seen the world, and all he does is sit in the bar and tell stories about the war, or how life used to be and such.
in the second verse, he's talking about why people turn to drinking and running away to a bar as a safe haven, because this is why the world is so harsh.
the third verse refers to people who claim killing in the name of god, or because of this-and-that -- people who make excuses for things that are obviously unexcusable. he promises his girl that one day they'll move out of the city, and meanwhile, he'll stick by her side, and in the meantime, let's go have a drink. he keeps saying he might leave ["maybe we'll leave come springtime"], but it's so vague that it's obvious that he's built up such a comraderie and built their lives upon the chaos in the city that it'll be hard to leave. ["what would we do without all these jerks anyway?/ besides, all our friends are here."]