So Long to the Holidays

"The Dichotomy of Desire"

When Brock is singing in this song, "So long to the holidays", is he implying that he is longing for that feeling of innocence and desire to be happy that occurs during the holidays and on Saturdays, or is it him acknowledging they are gone, and it is his truthful recognition of the fact they're are not around and therefore maybe happiness will not be around either. The feel of this song, its identity, it seems to point in that direction for me.

Initially, I interpreted it as him saying goodbye, a simple recognition to happiness he once felt no longer there; then I realized it also comes from this angle of yearning. Not yearning for the ability to be able to say goodbye, a yearning that exists in those moments when we truly feel that we can obtain our own perception of who we are. That we can actually live the perception we have about ourselves in our minds. Honest self-actualization.

This song seems to have a mask on, it seems to imply two things when it only may exist at first glance as one. It is talking about a longing for the holidays, like, "it's so long 'til the holidays, goddamn!". Yet it's also coming from the context of, "So long to the holidays, have a good one, Bud. It was fun while it lasted." It's a song that encompasses the duality of longing and desire and it is capable of being both at the same time.