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He wants direction in this struggle between the artist and the common man, because there are aspects of both of those vocations in his character. He's asking, "Do I keep writing songs, recording them, touring, and living a life that stretches and struggles, where I have to sacrifice so much of what constitutes a normal life just to be successful at it?
Apparently this record actually cost him his relationship with his longtime girlfriend. So in the end he comes to this sort of conclusion: "If I had an orchard, I would totally content to just work it all day, work til I'm raw and sore, because I know I could come home to you, and you'd run the store, and we'd have this normal, functioning, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle, instead of this scattered, stretching, difficult life I've lived as an artist.
But in the end, what good is it to sing helplessness blues? So he keeps doing what he's clearly so incredibly gifted at, and he puts out an album that totally rocks me. These sorts of questions are the very kind that the two ideologies deal with. Thanks for taking the time to put all of this down. My Interpretation I think this song is kind of about finding yourself. Everyone is told that they're unique and special when they're young, and a lot of people dream of changing the world and becoming household names.
But the reality is that that happens to very few people, and I think the singer is starting to accept that. He doesn't want to be famous anymore, he just wants to do what he loves while contributing to society in a small way - working in the orchard. At the same time, he's struggling with what everyone else around him is telling him to do "What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do" and "And I don't, I don't know who to believe". He doesn't know if he should listen to them or do what he wants for himself.
The last line could mean that he wants his life to have a happy ending, like a character in a movie. Lyric Correction I was raised up believing I was somehow unique Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes Unique in each way you can see And now after some thinking I'd say I'd rather be A functioning cog in some great machinery Serving something beyond me But I don't, I don't know what that will be I'll get back to you someday soon you will see What's my name, what's my station Oh just tell me what I should do I don't need to be kind to the armies of night That would do such injustice to you Or bow down and be grateful And say "Sure take all that you see" To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls And determine my future for me And I don't, I don't know who to believe I'll get back to you someday soon you will see If I know only one thing It's that every thing that I see Of the world outside is so inconceivable Often I barely can speak Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy And I can't keep it to myself What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Why should I wait for anyone else? The previous lyrics were from an online video of just Robin. I like the new changes, it's a great tune - and much better with the full band. General Comment I think the song talks about communism, or some sort of socialism. We initially feel uniqueness, humanness, but later we're degraded into dispensible labors and consumers. He won't be kind to them due to the injustice they carry out against the worker, determining their future as wage slaves, etc "If I had an orchard I'd work till I'm raw If i had an orchard I'd work till I'm sore" He's talking about the means of production being at the hands of the farmer back again.
So when he gets back the means of production ie the orchard, he's willing to "work till he's sore". Just like Marx said, "from each according to his ability" "And you would wait tables And soon run the store" So the worker gets to run the store now, not the capitalists, not the middle man. The proletariat runs the show now. The biggest reason why I think it's about communism is the "orchard" verse.
Or it could be the opposite, maybe he wants to actually work for something instead of getting everything handed to you by the government i. It kinda sounds like he wants to just move to a rural area and run an orchard instead of getting a or a factory job. The orchard verse is the very reason its not about communism. If he had an orchard, he would work his butt off until he is sore.
I mean, in America, where I'm from, you gotta work for what you want, not get everything handed to you. And his lady can wait tables and "sing around the store" I mean really, do you think Robin would write about living in a communist society? Honestly, I don't think his views about feeling 'unique' strike with communism. Surely the opposite? Like Marx said, "from each according to his ability". So a communist would have to give it his all in his work. Regarding the orchard verse, from what I understand, in a Capitalist society, the worker doesn't own the orchard, it's owned by the capitalist class, and the actual worker is treated as a wage slave.
That's why, at least from what I thought, our hero said "If I had an orchard". So the "unique snowflake" verse reminded me of this. Once again, I don't think I can explain it that good, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. I'm not a commie or anything, and I don't really know whether this interpretation was really what the writer had in mind when he wrote the song, but I think it could really fit the song.
I really like this interpretation a lot. I don't think it's probably what Robin had in mind when writing it, but I also think that our own interpretations of any form of art is what gives it its real meaning. I think this a very well thought out interpretation.
I think the line "some day I'll be like the man on the screen" can also support this in the idea that some day when things are returned to the worker he will be like the bourgeoisie that he's seen always "on the screen" or in the limelight, the only people who matter and in power.
And YOU will soon run the store, in typical capitalist society the under-employees never have a chance at this, they are always stuck doing under-work. In other words, if I was the one who owned an orchard, I would work the same jobs as those under me because we're all equally necessary for anything to succeed.
I realize that in any society, socialist or capitalist, there obviously are distinct positions for people in a workplace and they don't literally interchange, but it still can support a broad idea that the working class is not something to be trampled by bourgeoisie. Spot on. Hence, the fantasy about simpler times in a communal orchard, where he could work and have faith and actually be happy. I think the most chilling part is the last line: "Someday I'll be like the man on the screen," acknowledging that even his fantasy world was gotten "from the screen," aka seen on TV or in movies, essentially mediated by the same capitalist machine he sought to escape.
Java on April 02, This album seems to be about his struggle with his selfishness. Robin does not know what system to believe in, he is pointing out the flaws in both capitalism and socialism or communism , and can not decide which is better.
Instead of sharing his money and work with a community, he keeps them for himself. Each songs meaning varies when put in context with the entire album, making this such a damn good album. Intro feat. Deep Blue feat.
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