This would be a guy who feels 'part of the crowd' when he's out on the town. General CommentI can see the celebrity angle that the lyrics seem to suggest but I think this song is about a guy who got married young and is expressing regret. Again, this can be taken in two contexts: either they're fretting about the time they've wasted (like you mentioned) and are trying to get as much out of life at the last minute as they can, or they just have such a zest for life that they're not done living yet. The last verse, I think, can take two meanings, then: "So when the day comes to settle down/who's to blame if you're not around?" Obviously, the "day to settle down" refers to the eventual slowing down and ending of a person's life, and the fact that they're "not around," I, at least, think implies that they've not slowed or settled down at all, as would be expected of an aging person. In that context, maybe they're trying to say that we "never see what you want to see," as is sung later on, and assume that life isn't going the way it should, rather than just living it. I take this line to mean that the person in question realizes that life is going on around him and feels that he's missing out-that he's been taking the long way home and he wants to go and make it big instead of sitting around. "But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery" Although, it might not just be about letting it waste away: I think you're just about spot-on with the general theme of the song being about life passing by. I know I'm super late on this, but you make a good point. When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, calamity, is there no way out, oh yeahĭoes it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so niceĪnd when you're up on the stage, it's so unbelievableīut then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity Why should you care if you're feeling goodīut there are times that you feel you're part of the sceneryĪnd then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture 'Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood
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