When I first listened to it I got the feeling of life as both sad and happy, and it sounded like growing up. It feels warm and happy but it's continually filled with sadness, and if you carry that meaning throughout the song it's really powerful. Many of the lyrics sound like they could be talking about an unfairness a child experiences, father of three, won't you believe the middle child's words?
As the song progresses, the things that the child sees as unfair become more mature. Being forced to believe in what your parents do, simply because you weren't exposed to anything else. Or the house that is no longer home, having to grow up and leave behind what you once viewed as everything. No longer being attached to the only constant in your life.
Then either the perspective shifts to the father or the child grows more and is now a father himself, and questions where his son his, who presumably has undergone the same things he did, and left as he did. A cycle that never learns from itself.
So, I think it's less about running away and more about leaving home as we all do at some point, the father just misses when exactly his son left because for a while the son was physically there but not a part of it anymore.
I listened to this a first, a while back, and immediately loved it, but never really got a meaning from it until after i read the lyrics here...
I think the "lover of things", is his child, who has fallen out with his father, after the divorce. The father is the narrator, and is asking for forgiveness... He couldnt provide what the kid wanted, and the child resented him, ran away...
I listened to this a first, a while back, and immediately loved it, but never really got a meaning from it until after i read the lyrics here...
I think the "lover of things", is his child, who has fallen out with his father, after the divorce. The father is the narrator, and is asking for forgiveness... He couldnt provide what the kid wanted, and the child resented him, ran away...
The second verse reaches out to his grown son, a father of three, as well. possibly divorced now too, who's son is up to the same things the grown son did as a child...
the last verse, to me, is asking for a truce with the narrator's son, but the bridge seems to say that the son has failed better than the father. "Marrow without bone."
When I first listened to it I got the feeling of life as both sad and happy, and it sounded like growing up. It feels warm and happy but it's continually filled with sadness, and if you carry that meaning throughout the song it's really powerful. Many of the lyrics sound like they could be talking about an unfairness a child experiences, father of three, won't you believe the middle child's words?
As the song progresses, the things that the child sees as unfair become more mature. Being forced to believe in what your parents do, simply because you weren't exposed to anything else. Or the house that is no longer home, having to grow up and leave behind what you once viewed as everything. No longer being attached to the only constant in your life.
Then either the perspective shifts to the father or the child grows more and is now a father himself, and questions where his son his, who presumably has undergone the same things he did, and left as he did. A cycle that never learns from itself.
So, I think it's less about running away and more about leaving home as we all do at some point, the father just misses when exactly his son left because for a while the son was physically there but not a part of it anymore.
I listened to this a first, a while back, and immediately loved it, but never really got a meaning from it until after i read the lyrics here... I think the "lover of things", is his child, who has fallen out with his father, after the divorce. The father is the narrator, and is asking for forgiveness... He couldnt provide what the kid wanted, and the child resented him, ran away...
I listened to this a first, a while back, and immediately loved it, but never really got a meaning from it until after i read the lyrics here... I think the "lover of things", is his child, who has fallen out with his father, after the divorce. The father is the narrator, and is asking for forgiveness... He couldnt provide what the kid wanted, and the child resented him, ran away...
The second verse reaches out to his grown son, a father of three, as well. possibly divorced now too, who's son is up to the same things the grown son did as a child... the last verse, to me, is asking for a truce with the narrator's son, but the bridge seems to say that the son has failed better than the father. "Marrow without bone."
It describes the two family system perfectly.
"to live in a house with no home"