schlanky wrote:Looking at beantown's reply from a mere four years ago

Cole Younger wrote:It was great to get to see this one. I've always liked it and like you said I never thought I would see it performed.

schlanky wrote:Bumping because DBT just pulled this one out at Homecoming and it's been one of my favorites since the first time I heard it. Up until Friday, I'd been wondering if I'd ever see this one live.

Looking at beantown's reply from a mere four years ago, I've always had a different take on the last two lines of the first verse.

Living hard to chase the dream, way beyond our ways and means
Yours don't mean a goddamn thing.
That's what you said, but, don't believe it.

The way I hear it, she wasn't telling him that his dreams don't matter; she was accusing him of thinking that her dreams don't matter. And that would be par for the course for a heated argument---emotions are high and she accuses him of not caring about things that are important to her. She's throwing it back at the speaker that he's "living hard to chase the dream" and it has them stretched out financially and her dreams don't matter.

In the next line, if the missing pronoun is "I," he's saying, "yeah, you're saying that, but that's not what I think." If the missing pronoun is "you," he's saying "you're just saying I don't care about your dreams because you're pissed off." The missing pronoun doesn't matter because he's saying both----"it's not true that I don't care about your dreams" and "you're only saying that because you're mad."

That's my take, anyway. Heart wrenching song.

disgruntledgoat wrote:I'm living this song today. DD is going on full blast for my drive home before I take what's coming to me.

John A Arkansawyer wrote:

disgruntledgoat wrote:I'm living this song today. DD is going on full blast for my drive home before I take what's coming to me.

Been there, done that. I hear you, brother:

Patterson, back in '03, wrote:
I wrote "(Something's Got To) Give Pretty Soon" in early 2002, a couple of months before we recorded it. Musically it is one of the more blatant pop songs that I have written. I have been writing songs for a future solo project for some time, a power-pop record inspired by my hard-core love of Big Star and Todd Rundgren records, as well as the great 70's one-hit wonders. I initially thought of this song for that album. Lyrically, however, the song fit perfectly into the the song cycle of this album. Square in the middle between Cooley's "Sounds Better in the Song" where the lovers are holding on for dear life to the wreckage of their relationship and my song "Your Daddy Hates Me" which deals with the aftermath of divorce. The briefness of the song and it's power-pop sound make for an interesting transition. It became one of my favorite moments of the record.
I do miss the time when you could hear this style of music on the radio. Where are The Raspberry's when you need em?

Smitty wrote:Where are The Raspberry's when you need em?

beantownbubba wrote:

Smitty wrote:Where are The Raspberry's when you need em?

Damn good question.

dime in the gutter wrote:

beantownbubba wrote:

Smitty wrote:Where are The Raspberry's when you need em?

Damn good question.

cortez supplied a few raspberries in the spotify playlist thread.

Swamp wrote:Listening to this this morning really made me miss the old days of following the band.
I don't know why I feel so sad.