I think it's about wanting something you can't have, but even that thing you desire so much isn't what you need. "She tastes like the real thing." in a world full of fakeness, he wants desperatly to believe that this one is "the real thing." He's willing to be fake himself. Have you ever seen the shel silverstein poem about the woodpecker and the rubber tree? it just keeps pecking anyway. it's absolute desperation.
"The saddest thing I ever did see
Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree.
He looks at me, and 'Friend,' says he,
'Things ain't as sweet as they used to be.'"
-Shel Silverstein
"The saddest thing I ever did see
Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree.
He looks at me, and 'Friend,' says he,
'Things ain't as sweet as they used to be.'"
-Shel Silverstein
Close. It's about desiring to be something more for someone else. If I could be all you wanted. It's the desperation of not being enough for someone whom you wish would feel that you were enough.
Close. It's about desiring to be something more for someone else. If I could be all you wanted. It's the desperation of not being enough for someone whom you wish would feel that you were enough.
I think it's about wanting something you can't have, but even that thing you desire so much isn't what you need. "She tastes like the real thing." in a world full of fakeness, he wants desperatly to believe that this one is "the real thing." He's willing to be fake himself. Have you ever seen the shel silverstein poem about the woodpecker and the rubber tree? it just keeps pecking anyway. it's absolute desperation.
"The saddest thing I ever did see Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree. He looks at me, and 'Friend,' says he, 'Things ain't as sweet as they used to be.'" -Shel Silverstein
"The saddest thing I ever did see Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree. He looks at me, and 'Friend,' says he, 'Things ain't as sweet as they used to be.'" -Shel Silverstein
Close. It's about desiring to be something more for someone else. If I could be all you wanted. It's the desperation of not being enough for someone whom you wish would feel that you were enough.
Close. It's about desiring to be something more for someone else. If I could be all you wanted. It's the desperation of not being enough for someone whom you wish would feel that you were enough.