![]() when I write a song I just write it about myself. ![]() I just accept that it happens now, but it's sort of strange to me. I've sort of learned that thats not necessarily true. I didn't think other people would relate to them that well. they seem so singularly about me that I didn't think they would relate to other people. Just because the songs are very personal to me. Um, well it still seems kinda weird to me. It's not exactly chronological, but it's definitely moving from one place to another, in fit's and starts, one step forward and two steps back, that kind of thing. I find "Miller's Angels" to be about something that horrifies you and you're crying with it. The second half of the album is about a lot of the same feelings, but it's more cathartic, more about dealing with it. It was very frustrating and bitter, and it culminates with "Have You Seen Me Lately"-a howl which says "Not only do you not know me, but neither do I." It sums up the touring, fame, and everything, saying where it brought me to. I think the "first album" is really about a lot of the shit I was going through and how difficult it was, about being unable to function within it. "I could tell you that the songs are about a guy doing this, but it's all me. this is Adams take on the album as a whole. But I still hope, someday, she comes down on someone and can be happy and content again. And it wasn't a lifetime commitment I could make, and I guess she wasn't my satellite for long at all. I still keep in touch with her, because she I guess she was everybody's satellite now, circling and circling but never really touching down. ![]() She was so far away from really facing what was going on in her life, and all I could do was poke at the surface and try to help (Till they see themselves in telescopes/Hey listen, do you see yourself in me?) I think the line that really describes the view from the outside looking in was, She sees shooting stars and comet tails/She's got heaven in her eyes/She says I don't need to be an angel/But I'm nothing if I'm not this high. It was right about this time that I met her (Maybe I slipped in between), when she had come home from school barely alive for the holidays (why'd you come home to this faithless town?). Eventually, her body broke down and she was put in the hospital for an eating disorder after a bad break-up (Shot down in pieces). She went through some serious trauma as a teen, and she compensated by studying really hard and basically just working herself insane to avoid her problems (We're such crazy babies, little monkey I guess I still do, but not in the same way. ![]() General CommentThis song reminds me of a girl I knew. To walk downtown and see your friends from high school in the same situation. feeling like I needed to get back to basics and figure out what they hell to do next with my life. There is this awful gossip that just says. how many times there is a resentment of those who "make it out" of there. think of how much gossip happens in small towns. and she wanted to bring me back down to where they were. I can't tell you how many times my mom would call me and tell me to come live back home. and usually your family in that town.įamilies. You find things difficult out there in the world and you retreat to the safety of your small town. they have a horrible way of recalling you back when things get rough. he just reached for the ceiling.īut just like all small towns. to leave and find a new life out there.Īnd likewise. a girl that couldn't wait to get out of there. This song just sings a story of a man who grew up in a small town and had his eye on a girl. those who can't wait to get the hell out of dodge and do something "better" and those with less lofty ambitions that simply want to make things "better" right where they are at. General CommentAll the comments thus far seem very valid for this song, but I'd like to ascribe a variation as this song mirrors a story anyone who grew up in a small town can relate to. So why'd you come home to this angel town ![]() So why'd you come home to this faithless townĪnd all anybody really wants to know is. Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displaysĪnd she watches as her babies drift violently away So why'd you come home to this sleepless town But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see ![]()
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