This song seems to have quite a few drug references ("When are you gonna come down","Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays"). But personally finding the whole drug thing horribly overdone, I like to give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it is much more general.
To me, it's all about the very hard choices one faces growing up. The decisions between "Drifting violently away" and "Coming home to this faithless town," neither of which look all that attractive. There's the sadness through a friend's eyes, watching the other progress from the rebellious dream of "being the wildest people they ever hoped to see," to the consequences of "Falling from the sky," to the defeated realization that "We only stay in orbit for a moment of time" and "Everybody really knows for sure ... That you're gonna come down."
It's the usual Adam Duritz defeatism peeking through, but the story takes the listener for a great ride, and the music is so raw that I absolutely love it. Instead of depressing you from part one like other songs of their's ('Round Here', 'Daylight Fading'), this one is at least mature enough to take us through different facets of the journey there.
This song seems to have quite a few drug references ("When are you gonna come down","Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays"). But personally finding the whole drug thing horribly overdone, I like to give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it is much more general.
To me, it's all about the very hard choices one faces growing up. The decisions between "Drifting violently away" and "Coming home to this faithless town," neither of which look all that attractive. There's the sadness through a friend's eyes, watching the other progress from the rebellious dream of "being the wildest people they ever hoped to see," to the consequences of "Falling from the sky," to the defeated realization that "We only stay in orbit for a moment of time" and "Everybody really knows for sure ... That you're gonna come down."
It's the usual Adam Duritz defeatism peeking through, but the story takes the listener for a great ride, and the music is so raw that I absolutely love it. Instead of depressing you from part one like other songs of their's ('Round Here', 'Daylight Fading'), this one is at least mature enough to take us through different facets of the journey there.