Sometimes this song picking thing is difficult, because I feel like I have to make a choice between a new song I am really into, without any sort of decent story to tell about it; or an old song I don't like as much, with a great story behind it.

Then sometimes I worry further and think, if I keep discovering new music so rapidly I will never have time to develop specific memories for certain songs. On top of that, as I grow older my life seems to become more routine, thus further minimizing the chance that I will experience something interesting and exciting while listening to a certain artist or song.

I write about this not because it's day seventy-something and I'm already worrying about having nothing to say, but because it is something to say. (Gotcha!) This song, also, seems to be about the random / unexpected loss of idealism. (Someone on SongMeanings links the song up with loss of childhood dreams, but I don't see how the metaphor for freedom suggested by the eucalyptus stumps & venturing out after distant lights can at all relate to the loss of dreams. I'd say that their Eucalyptus fortress was something that enclosed a maintained idealistic lifestyle.)

Or, maybe it's all just about trading safety, security and stability away for freedom, albeit to an uncertain end.

Music is crazy.

Twitter Note: Internet buddy of mine Marq "Monohymn" Gould (as I have so decided to christen him) did the second piece of staires_!_ fan art. I'm touched in ways that I can't even begin to understand.