This one I wrote while I was in a band for a short time with a middle aged divorced ex-yoga teacher who spent oodles and oodles of money on his kid who he barely ever saw. I'm telling you, that kid had every gadget that there was at that time (this was a number of years ago- 10?) and though I never met the little boy I had the sense that he was a lonely boy who just wanted to spend TIME with his dad. So there is some of that in the song and in general the song is about wanting things that don't make you happy, or giving things that nobody wants, or planning so much of your life that you forget to live it. I guess you could say it's a song about modern-day angst.
My favorite line of the song:
I'd give you the world if I could, if I could understand it, for you I would.
Which is an acknowledgment that I don't know a damn thing about how this crazy world works. I have no answers. I only write songs.
amen, alleluia, pass the sunscreen
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