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you think is a precise picture in the lyrics is
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there’s a great deal of past experiences in
the lyrics, of yearning. I’m writing from a
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and it’s very hard to get in a position of
trust with people. You kind of have to be
very much on guard. Because you pretty
much live on a tour bus, and you’re in a
different part of the world every day, so it’s
very hard to gain any trust. So it’s very
hard to get the opportunity to spend
enough quality time with them to really
get a relationship going. So for the time
being, my duty is to the work. And I’m
okay with that. So there’s definitely stuff in
this record that pulls from happier times
with other people. But only some of that
recently.
angrier and more scathing, I think. But
still, they were trying to reach for the still-
beating heart of that warm human center,
which is still here, even at the end, imagin-
ing the worst-case scenario. Even then,
with a song like “Wasteland,” which was
— in no metaphorical sense — literally an
end of the world scenario, it’s saying that
that warm, hopeful center is still there as
long as there’s me, as long as there’s you.
So again, it’s always trying to reach for that
redemptive, hopeful center.
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