I don't think this song is about nihilsm, because Richard never seemed to be an anomie. He wrote very emotional songs. I think this is about being detatched from society, in both good ways and bad. He takes a TV and drops it in a vacant lot - he is removed from everyday news and politics, from gossip and oppinion. He doesn't want to listen to all the rubbish that everyone else does. He belongs not to generation X, or generation Y, but his own generation; and he can choose what he likes, hates, does or doesn't do. He is an idividual. At the same time, he was saying "Let me out of here!" Before he was born, he already felt trapped by the conformities of this world. He has no friends, because he cannot understand them any more than they understand him. He has reaped the benifits and the maladies that come with awareness. How true those words. By the way, anyone noticed Hell's strange obsession with triangles?
I don't think this song is about nihilsm, because Richard never seemed to be an anomie. He wrote very emotional songs. I think this is about being detatched from society, in both good ways and bad. He takes a TV and drops it in a vacant lot - he is removed from everyday news and politics, from gossip and oppinion. He doesn't want to listen to all the rubbish that everyone else does. He belongs not to generation X, or generation Y, but his own generation; and he can choose what he likes, hates, does or doesn't do. He is an idividual. At the same time, he was saying "Let me out of here!" Before he was born, he already felt trapped by the conformities of this world. He has no friends, because he cannot understand them any more than they understand him. He has reaped the benifits and the maladies that come with awareness. How true those words. By the way, anyone noticed Hell's strange obsession with triangles?
@NellieWhiskey Gen X or Y? He was born in 1949, he was an early baby boomer.
@NellieWhiskey Gen X or Y? He was born in 1949, he was an early baby boomer.