I suppose it's about surrender. Like people have mentioned before this song appeals on a personal and political level. Conor's from the midwest and for a californian like me that sucks. No oceans to remind you of different ways to approach conflict. At the end of a relationship you're not quite sure which direction to go. Do you walk together or away from eachother? Do you leave amicably or go to war? The U.S. isn't adored much these days, but we keep making enemies because we're not willing to let go. People younger than us are dying in countries they read about when they were in school playing "guns in the street." And it seems there's alot of conflict with Conor because maybe he grew up just as patriotic as me, but then soon learned that patriotism isn't always a virtue. Maybe he feels it behooves him to sing about these things when all he wants to do is sing about love and happiness. But the devils of fame keep him singing. So he surrenders to that fact and keeps writing these great songs. Like LongforBlueSkies said, there's too much to talk about in the small amount of space that a message board offers. Does anyone know what that liquid cure is? My friend thinks its about drugs. Lame.
Great ideas. I wanted to post a quote for you, though. "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or...
Great ideas. I wanted to post a quote for you, though. "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." - Theodore Roosevelt. Patriotism is a good thing. When you don't like something that somebody is doing to lead your country you can be patriotic. You can stand by your country and oppose the person. I'm still sad and angry about what has been done(and is still happening in Iraq), though.
@souldier your response was posted ten years ago so I doubt you will ever read this but for the curious folk like me who go searching for lyric meanings I will say I thought about that line "I've got a liquid cure, for my landlocked blues" for a while and if you think about it and read it a lot you'll see that Connor was using a play on words. A 'liquid cure' was used to signify traveling overseas. The only way to cure landlocked blues is to leave that place. My mom had landlocked blues before she left her...
@souldier your response was posted ten years ago so I doubt you will ever read this but for the curious folk like me who go searching for lyric meanings I will say I thought about that line "I've got a liquid cure, for my landlocked blues" for a while and if you think about it and read it a lot you'll see that Connor was using a play on words. A 'liquid cure' was used to signify traveling overseas. The only way to cure landlocked blues is to leave that place. My mom had landlocked blues before she left her birthstate of Hawaii and came to the mainland. She felt landlocked and trapped and needed to see the world. I think of her when I hear that line.
I suppose it's about surrender. Like people have mentioned before this song appeals on a personal and political level. Conor's from the midwest and for a californian like me that sucks. No oceans to remind you of different ways to approach conflict. At the end of a relationship you're not quite sure which direction to go. Do you walk together or away from eachother? Do you leave amicably or go to war? The U.S. isn't adored much these days, but we keep making enemies because we're not willing to let go. People younger than us are dying in countries they read about when they were in school playing "guns in the street." And it seems there's alot of conflict with Conor because maybe he grew up just as patriotic as me, but then soon learned that patriotism isn't always a virtue. Maybe he feels it behooves him to sing about these things when all he wants to do is sing about love and happiness. But the devils of fame keep him singing. So he surrenders to that fact and keeps writing these great songs. Like LongforBlueSkies said, there's too much to talk about in the small amount of space that a message board offers. Does anyone know what that liquid cure is? My friend thinks its about drugs. Lame.
Great ideas. I wanted to post a quote for you, though. "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or...
Great ideas. I wanted to post a quote for you, though. "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." - Theodore Roosevelt. Patriotism is a good thing. When you don't like something that somebody is doing to lead your country you can be patriotic. You can stand by your country and oppose the person. I'm still sad and angry about what has been done(and is still happening in Iraq), though.
@souldier your response was posted ten years ago so I doubt you will ever read this but for the curious folk like me who go searching for lyric meanings I will say I thought about that line "I've got a liquid cure, for my landlocked blues" for a while and if you think about it and read it a lot you'll see that Connor was using a play on words. A 'liquid cure' was used to signify traveling overseas. The only way to cure landlocked blues is to leave that place. My mom had landlocked blues before she left her...
@souldier your response was posted ten years ago so I doubt you will ever read this but for the curious folk like me who go searching for lyric meanings I will say I thought about that line "I've got a liquid cure, for my landlocked blues" for a while and if you think about it and read it a lot you'll see that Connor was using a play on words. A 'liquid cure' was used to signify traveling overseas. The only way to cure landlocked blues is to leave that place. My mom had landlocked blues before she left her birthstate of Hawaii and came to the mainland. She felt landlocked and trapped and needed to see the world. I think of her when I hear that line.