Red Mosquito

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

Monkey_Driven wrote:Lifting rocks can mean a lot of different things. I don't think it is intended to only be read in a literal way.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Lifting rocks can mean a lot of different things. I don't think it is intended to only be read in a literal way.

Strat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

Uh. Tons of people. Construction, landscapers, manual labor jobs. That is what it is referring to.

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

Uh. Tons of people. Construction, landscapers, manual labor jobs. That is what it is referring to.

OK, that makes sense

Bammer wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Strat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

Uh. Tons of people. Construction, landscapers, manual labor jobs. That is what it is referring to.

OK, that makes sense

It’s not even just that. It’s for anyone struggling through life even a minimum wage burger flipper.

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

guitar_davey wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

I take it as very metaphorical and a tip of the cap to the hard-working 99%.

Ms Harmless wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

I take it as very metaphorical and a tip of the cap to the hard-working 99%.

yeah I think it calls to mind that term "wage slave", one I've never been too comfortable with... but hey no biggie

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

I take it as very metaphorical and a tip of the cap to the hard-working 99%.

yeah I think it calls to mind that term "wage slave", one I've never been too comfortable with... but hey no biggie

I support myself and family well being a rock flipper. It like Springsteen singing about the various people in his songs. The difference is Springsteen knows he is a fraud and Ed hasn't figured it out yet.

Kevin Davis wrote:I listened to this today, with this lyrical discussion in mind, and I think that, taken in the context of the verse, Ed actually intends a positive meaning of "lifting rocks to make a wage."

Living life on the back porch
Lifting rocks to make a wage
Every sunset paid attention to
Not a starry night went to waste

He's effectively describing a kind of pressure free "simple life," where the rock-lifting represents "an honest day's work" before coming home and reveling in the small pleasures of everyday life, now enlightened enough to take none of them for granted. All in the context of this sort of Utopian retreat from whatever horrors are being visited upon the rest of the civilized world.

Thematically this song is basically "In Hiding" on a global level.

stip wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Lifting rocks can mean a lot of different things. I don't think it is intended to only be read in a literal way.

like sysiphus I move the rock

LikeLukin wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I listened to this today, with this lyrical discussion in mind, and I think that, taken in the context of the verse, Ed actually intends a positive meaning of "lifting rocks to make a wage."

Living life on the back porch
Lifting rocks to make a wage
Every sunset paid attention to
Not a starry night went to waste

He's effectively describing a kind of pressure free "simple life," where the rock-lifting represents "an honest day's work" before coming home and reveling in the small pleasures of everyday life, now enlightened enough to take none of them for granted. All in the context of this sort of Utopian retreat from whatever horrors are being visited upon the rest of the civilized world.

Thematically this song is basically "In Hiding" on a global level.

This is how I took it as well.

Jaeti wrote:

LikeLukin wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I listened to this today, with this lyrical discussion in mind, and I think that, taken in the context of the verse, Ed actually intends a positive meaning of "lifting rocks to make a wage."

Living life on the back porch
Lifting rocks to make a wage
Every sunset paid attention to
Not a starry night went to waste

He's effectively describing a kind of pressure free "simple life," where the rock-lifting represents "an honest day's work" before coming home and reveling in the small pleasures of everyday life, now enlightened enough to take none of them for granted. All in the context of this sort of Utopian retreat from whatever horrors are being visited upon the rest of the civilized world.

Thematically this song is basically "In Hiding" on a global level.

This is how I took it as well.

Likewise.

Kevin Davis wrote:I listened to this today, with this lyrical discussion in mind, and I think that, taken in the context of the verse, Ed actually intends a positive meaning of "lifting rocks to make a wage."

Living life on the back porch
Lifting rocks to make a wage
Every sunset paid attention to
Not a starry night went to waste

He's effectively describing a kind of pressure free "simple life," where the rock-lifting represents "an honest day's work" before coming home and reveling in the small pleasures of everyday life, now enlightened enough to take none of them for granted. All in the context of this sort of Utopian retreat from whatever horrors are being visited upon the rest of the civilized world.

Thematically this song is basically "In Hiding" on a global level.

Ms Harmless wrote:

Tj wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

guitar_davey wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:"lifting rocks to make a wage" is kind of embarrassing; who does that except for slaves and prisoners?

I take it as very metaphorical and a tip of the cap to the hard-working 99%.

yeah I think it calls to mind that term "wage slave", one I've never been too comfortable with... but hey no biggie

I support myself and family well being a rock flipper. It like Springsteen singing about the various people in his songs. The difference is Springsteen knows he is a fraud and Ed hasn't figured it out yet.

yeah that's a lot to do with it