I don't think this song is about him being torn between two women.. I tried to reread the lyrics a few times to see it from that point of view but to me... It's about one girl. by "little" she may be younger, or petite, or just fragile..i agree that the "on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt" is him going through the everyday motions.. i don't know what la cienega means.. but i think maybe it's the girl and how she can say the smallest thing "see ya around" like it's nothing, but he feels so intensely for her.
i think the song is about alcohol also, when he says:
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead
neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye"
he'll drink because either way he's in pain. "neither one of you really help me to sleep anymore" to me means, that the drinking doesn't make him sleep better either. nothing really numbs it. the "one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul", the alcohol being what breaks his body (bad for him physically), and "the other breaks my soul"... SHE breaks his soul.
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead
neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead
neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye
I don't think this is about alcohol, I think when he says I raise my glass it is a metaphor. And I think this is about a girl who he likes who lives on the street La cienega, who breaks his body, but another girl breaks his soul.
I don't think this is about alcohol, I think when he says I raise my glass it is a metaphor. And I think this is about a girl who he likes who lives on the street La cienega, who breaks his body, but another girl breaks his soul.
I don't think this song is about him being torn between two women.. I tried to reread the lyrics a few times to see it from that point of view but to me... It's about one girl. by "little" she may be younger, or petite, or just fragile..i agree that the "on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt" is him going through the everyday motions.. i don't know what la cienega means.. but i think maybe it's the girl and how she can say the smallest thing "see ya around" like it's nothing, but he feels so intensely for her.
i think the song is about alcohol also, when he says:
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead neither of you really help me to sleep anymore one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye"
he'll drink because either way he's in pain. "neither one of you really help me to sleep anymore" to me means, that the drinking doesn't make him sleep better either. nothing really numbs it. the "one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul", the alcohol being what breaks his body (bad for him physically), and "the other breaks my soul"... SHE breaks his soul.
:/i don't know. just my two cents.
while i still think there is credibility to my depiction of the song, i really like your ideas. addict can be for anything - drugs, alcohol, a person.
while i still think there is credibility to my depiction of the song, i really like your ideas. addict can be for anything - drugs, alcohol, a person.
good interpretation.
good interpretation.
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead neither of you really help me to sleep anymore one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye
"and raise my glass 'cause either way i'm dead neither of you really help me to sleep anymore one breaks my body and the other breaks my soul la cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye
I don't think this is about alcohol, I think when he says I raise my glass it is a metaphor. And I think this is about a girl who he likes who lives on the street La cienega, who breaks his body, but another girl breaks his soul.
I don't think this is about alcohol, I think when he says I raise my glass it is a metaphor. And I think this is about a girl who he likes who lives on the street La cienega, who breaks his body, but another girl breaks his soul.