I think Slow Show relates to the fact that the woman may be more educated than this man. The man, feeling very insecure, feels the constant need to clown his way into the heart of his girl, lest she become bored. And he is afraid afraid of over doing it and becoming the silly idiot he himself thinks he is. I think he is also so very in love with her, and afraid that she will find out he is the fraud he thinks he is...
I haven't read a post yet that i completely agree with. I have felt this way about this since i heard it. I am looking at the lyrics now cause im going through exactly what I think they are talking about. first I dont know what the lyrics officially are but I hear the drawer line as Everything I love is lost in drugs. which makes a lot more sense. I think there may be some other lines I hear differently. Anyway, I see this song as the verse contrasting the chorus. The verse is about how everything is falling...
I haven't read a post yet that i completely agree with. I have felt this way about this since i heard it. I am looking at the lyrics now cause im going through exactly what I think they are talking about. first I dont know what the lyrics officially are but I hear the drawer line as Everything I love is lost in drugs. which makes a lot more sense. I think there may be some other lines I hear differently. Anyway, I see this song as the verse contrasting the chorus. The verse is about how everything is falling apart in his life. He has made some serious mistakes. These mistakes may have to do with drugs, relationships, work, the law, whatever it may be but they do not have anything to do with the person from the chorus. The person in the chorus is his savior. As bad as everything in his life is going he just wants to rush home and be with this one person who loves him unconditionally. This makes so much sense I could quote line for line but it makes so much sense. It is a thank you song to this person. "ut a blue ribbon on my brain". just comfort him when he is down because everything else is so wrong. I dont see how you all see this song so differentl.
This song relates to me, a 35 year-old man who did a lot of partying in his 20s who is now married with a one year-old daughter, in a much different way.
This song relates to me, a 35 year-old man who did a lot of partying in his 20s who is now married with a one year-old daughter, in a much different way.
"Standing at the punch table swallowing punch
can't pay attention to the sound of anyone
a little more stupid, a little more scared
every minute more unprepared"
"Standing at the punch table swallowing punch
can't pay attention to the sound of anyone
a little more stupid, a little more scared
every minute more unprepared"
---I used to be great at parties....very sociable and fun. Now I think about my responsibilities and the fact that I shouldn't be out "swallowing punch" while my baby is at home. I am completely unprepared to succeed in this atmosphere.
"I made a mistake in my life today
everything I love gets lost in drawers
I want to start over, I want to be winning
way out of sync from the beginning"
--I have been irresponsible in the past and effed things up. Of course, my new responsibility is way too important and I need to step up and get my brain and heart around it.
"I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightened
I'll overdo it"
--Yup, this is how I feel every day that I am leaving the office, a friend's house, or anywhere, these days, when I am coming home to my daughter. The Slow Show is whatever performance I am putting on, slow and at her level, with the intent of cracking her up and building love.
"Looking for somewhere to stand and stay
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away
Can I get a minute of not being nervous
and not thinking of my dick
My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins
I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in
You could drive a car through my head in five minutes
from one side of it to the other"
--Again, feeling uncomfortable in the party, singles environment in which I used to thrive. "The wall leaned away" means that the environment is no longer accepting of me and wants me out of there, and home where I belong. The party with the punch bowl isn't where I belong anymore. I need to "stop thinking of my dick" because my days of fornication are over.
"You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for
for twenty-nine years"
--I dreamed of true love my whole life, and found it when she was born.
I really think you nailed it beanbag. Makes sense to me. Toastwaver, I'm curious if it is actually a child that the 29 years refers to or 29 years it took him to find his true love maybe?
I really think you nailed it beanbag. Makes sense to me. Toastwaver, I'm curious if it is actually a child that the 29 years refers to or 29 years it took him to find his true love maybe?
I think Slow Show relates to the fact that the woman may be more educated than this man. The man, feeling very insecure, feels the constant need to clown his way into the heart of his girl, lest she become bored. And he is afraid afraid of over doing it and becoming the silly idiot he himself thinks he is. I think he is also so very in love with her, and afraid that she will find out he is the fraud he thinks he is...
I haven't read a post yet that i completely agree with. I have felt this way about this since i heard it. I am looking at the lyrics now cause im going through exactly what I think they are talking about. first I dont know what the lyrics officially are but I hear the drawer line as Everything I love is lost in drugs. which makes a lot more sense. I think there may be some other lines I hear differently. Anyway, I see this song as the verse contrasting the chorus. The verse is about how everything is falling...
I haven't read a post yet that i completely agree with. I have felt this way about this since i heard it. I am looking at the lyrics now cause im going through exactly what I think they are talking about. first I dont know what the lyrics officially are but I hear the drawer line as Everything I love is lost in drugs. which makes a lot more sense. I think there may be some other lines I hear differently. Anyway, I see this song as the verse contrasting the chorus. The verse is about how everything is falling apart in his life. He has made some serious mistakes. These mistakes may have to do with drugs, relationships, work, the law, whatever it may be but they do not have anything to do with the person from the chorus. The person in the chorus is his savior. As bad as everything in his life is going he just wants to rush home and be with this one person who loves him unconditionally. This makes so much sense I could quote line for line but it makes so much sense. It is a thank you song to this person. "ut a blue ribbon on my brain". just comfort him when he is down because everything else is so wrong. I dont see how you all see this song so differentl.
This song relates to me, a 35 year-old man who did a lot of partying in his 20s who is now married with a one year-old daughter, in a much different way.
This song relates to me, a 35 year-old man who did a lot of partying in his 20s who is now married with a one year-old daughter, in a much different way.
"Standing at the punch table swallowing punch can't pay attention to the sound of anyone a little more stupid, a little more scared every minute more unprepared"
"Standing at the punch table swallowing punch can't pay attention to the sound of anyone a little more stupid, a little more scared every minute more unprepared"
---I used to be great at parties....very sociable and fun. Now I think about my responsibilities and the fact that I shouldn't be out "swallowing punch" while my baby is at home. I am completely unprepared to succeed in this atmosphere.
"I made a mistake in my life today everything I love gets lost in drawers I want to start over, I want to be winning way out of sync from the beginning"
--I have been irresponsible in the past and effed things up. Of course, my new responsibility is way too important and I need to step up and get my brain and heart around it.
"I wanna hurry home to you put on a slow, dumb show for you and crack you up so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain god I'm very, very frightened I'll overdo it"
--Yup, this is how I feel every day that I am leaving the office, a friend's house, or anywhere, these days, when I am coming home to my daughter. The Slow Show is whatever performance I am putting on, slow and at her level, with the intent of cracking her up and building love.
"Looking for somewhere to stand and stay I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away Can I get a minute of not being nervous and not thinking of my dick My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in You could drive a car through my head in five minutes from one side of it to the other"
--Again, feeling uncomfortable in the party, singles environment in which I used to thrive. "The wall leaned away" means that the environment is no longer accepting of me and wants me out of there, and home where I belong. The party with the punch bowl isn't where I belong anymore. I need to "stop thinking of my dick" because my days of fornication are over.
"You know I dreamed about you for twenty-nine years before I saw you You know I dreamed about you I missed you for for twenty-nine years"
--I dreamed of true love my whole life, and found it when she was born.
I really think you nailed it beanbag. Makes sense to me. Toastwaver, I'm curious if it is actually a child that the 29 years refers to or 29 years it took him to find his true love maybe?
I really think you nailed it beanbag. Makes sense to me. Toastwaver, I'm curious if it is actually a child that the 29 years refers to or 29 years it took him to find his true love maybe?