While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. The Hillside Manor part is not a talk with the old flame, it's with a friend he can talk with about it all.Īlso the futility of trying to "hold on to these moments as they pass" is both a longing I share and something I know can't ever be attained - a romantic fools-errand, but in modelin moments, also something that one needs to cling to to put some value into all the effort that went into the relationship (cause it can't just be wasted time - can it?).Īlso the futility of trying to "hold on to these moments as they pass" is both a longing I share and something I know can't ever be attained - a romantic fools-errand, but in modelin moments, also something that one needs to cling to to put some value into all the effort that went into the relationship (cause it can't just be wasted time - can it?). The relationship is over, and most of him knows it, but the longing wont go away and yet, a dip in the ocean might help life seem to move forward, at least for another day. I also agree with the low moods in December as well as that being a new beginning - what with the days beginning to get longer again. I agre wtih mouchoirs interpretation for the most part. The emotion, memories, self-blame, and forgiveness all wrapped up in a nice package resonated perfectly with my own feelings. I attached myself to this song not long after I started a divorce. It's been so long since I've seen the ocean I guess I should I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show herĪnd it's been a long December and there's reason to believe I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, If you think you might come to California I think you shouldĭrove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. To see the way that light attaches to a girl If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you wouldĪnd the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearlsĪll at once you look across a crowded room I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin' Maybe this year will be better than the last A long December and there's reason to believe
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