song explanation for "sometimes motion"
This is the last song I ever wrote as a resident of Columbus, Ohio. I wish it could have been a more eloquent elegy for a town that, despite its faults, has proven to be such a large part of the person I've become. I also feel like I should be somehow penalized for writing a song about being on tour and that uses the phrase "on the road", as I'm sure I've made fun of that cheesy phrase many times myself. I wrote these words after having a conversation with BZ where we both decided that we would rather be on tour than watch our friends flee the city or mope sadly alone in their houses. It was hard to accept that something like going on tour, which has always seemed pretty unnatural to me, was a bigger part of my life, or maybe just made more sense at the time, than trying to struggle with my friends to be happy in Columbus, or the education that I had just finished, or the relationships that I was trying to figure out. So, this song, for me at least, isn't really about being on tour, or traveling, in any more than a superficial sense. It's about realizing that the life that you live is the one that you choose - that you can be happy with that life, or you can choose a different one, but you can't do either of those things without first accepting what it is that your life has become.
song explanation for "promises"
This is simply about being hard on yourself when you don't live up to your own expectations. It's hard to find a balance between holding yourself to ideals or goals and being flexible.
posted by geoff on 9/04/2004 03:39:25 PM
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