I commute past this stretch on Hastings on the bus. The bus driver was once harassed so badly by passengers that he left the vehicle and never came back. Its a desperate place and song represents it very accurately.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! Beautiful! A bit of preaching along with the bag pipes hits it in the heart. Traffic noises in the background brings me to my days working on skid row hearing folks hollering as i proceeded on my routes. Made no sense to me at the moment but if I were to have listened to the woman hollering in the street as I was walking into tue building on Figuerora it may have made some sense and it did sound like the dude in the beginning. I think of that moment of that homeless woman yelling in the street as I was working when i hear this song. Sometimes folks we think are hollering crazy nonsense can be hollering nothing but the truth. Whether we choose to face it or not. "End Is Near, Repence!"
A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No, it's not a lion. It's a giraffe."
I have gone to sleep to this song for probably the last 7 or 8 years. Never once have I been awake to hear the ending. Sends me into a trance of melancholy mixed with euphoria
