Results for “homelessness and displacement”

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths

A speaker without a home begs to be driven anywhere, anywhere at all, and finds in the prospect of a fatal car crash not tragedy…

homelessness and displacement unrequited or unspoken love romanticized death

Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay

Otis Redding

A man who has moved across the country sits by the water in San Francisco, watching ships come and go, admitting he is doing…

idleness and drift migration and displacement loneliness

Rock & Roll Stew

Traffic

This is a road-worn touring song, a loose, groove-driven complaint and celebration about the grind of life on the move. It…

touring exhaustion displacement vs. home alienation from ordinary life

Cranes in the Sky

Solange

Solange catalogs a long list of failed coping mechanisms for an unnamed sorrow, building an inventory of avoidance that…

avoidance and denial depression/emotional exhaustion consumerism as false comfort

Shot By Both Sides

Magazine

A song about ideological homelessness, built around a narrator who has infiltrated a crowd or movement only to find himself…

ideological disillusionment alienation from crowds and movements cynicism about political certainty