"And to those of you who moan your lives through one day to the next
Well, let them take you to next
Can't you live and be thankful you're here?
see it could be you tomorrow, next year"
kinda bugs me a bit nowadays. I took it to mean that the protagonist was adopting a 'cheer up, it might never happen' mentality to people who he doesn't even know (he's grouping 'those of you' so that suggests to me that he's addressing anyone who falls under what he's saying rather than picking out individuals who he is acquainted with).
The view expressed that it's aimed at those who don't want to do anything about their current situation and feel more content to complain without action seems somewhat valid but, even then, it's not really expressed well through the lyrics. It sounds like a mass generalisation.
I do like the idea of those final lines being a massive rant after losing someone he holds dear. The grief has made him do an outpour like that as his feelings are getting rather twitchy. He can't bare being around those who are complaining about trivial things and throws that at them. It seems easier to comprehend if grief was playing a major part of it as losing people can tear us down the middle and react in confrontational ways.
As a philosophy of life itself it's something I don't agree with. There are so many factors to be brought into why people express grievances over things. Fyfe seems like a lovely guy so I doubt he intended it that way. It just slightly comes across that way.
After this kind of event you do tend to be extremely shaken up and adrenaline fuelled and want everyone to make the best of life though, so it evokes it perfectly.
After this kind of event you do tend to be extremely shaken up and adrenaline fuelled and want everyone to make the best of life though, so it evokes it perfectly.
The bit that goes:
"And to those of you who moan your lives through one day to the next Well, let them take you to next Can't you live and be thankful you're here? see it could be you tomorrow, next year"
kinda bugs me a bit nowadays. I took it to mean that the protagonist was adopting a 'cheer up, it might never happen' mentality to people who he doesn't even know (he's grouping 'those of you' so that suggests to me that he's addressing anyone who falls under what he's saying rather than picking out individuals who he is acquainted with).
The view expressed that it's aimed at those who don't want to do anything about their current situation and feel more content to complain without action seems somewhat valid but, even then, it's not really expressed well through the lyrics. It sounds like a mass generalisation.
I do like the idea of those final lines being a massive rant after losing someone he holds dear. The grief has made him do an outpour like that as his feelings are getting rather twitchy. He can't bare being around those who are complaining about trivial things and throws that at them. It seems easier to comprehend if grief was playing a major part of it as losing people can tear us down the middle and react in confrontational ways.
As a philosophy of life itself it's something I don't agree with. There are so many factors to be brought into why people express grievances over things. Fyfe seems like a lovely guy so I doubt he intended it that way. It just slightly comes across that way.
After this kind of event you do tend to be extremely shaken up and adrenaline fuelled and want everyone to make the best of life though, so it evokes it perfectly.
After this kind of event you do tend to be extremely shaken up and adrenaline fuelled and want everyone to make the best of life though, so it evokes it perfectly.