Results for “touring exhaustion”

Songs

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

The Who

This is the climactic closing statement of Quadrophenia, a plea for emotional deliverance disguised as a weather report. The…

spiritual longing emotional exhaustion love as elemental force

The Rolling Stones

A weary plea for tenderness dressed up as a refusal to keep serving as someone's workhorse. The narrator insists he's given…

exhaustion in relationships emotional labor vs desire masculinity and self-worth

Fleetwood Mac

A breakup song built on willful avoidance: the narrator repeatedly insists they don't want an explanation for why the…

denial as self-protection romantic dissolution emotional exhaustion

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

Nick Drake

A brief autobiographical arc compressed into a handful of couplets, tracing a movement from innocence through disillusionment to…

loss of innocence depression and fatigue dependency on another

Thin Lizzy

This is Thin Lizzy's suite-like tribute to Irish identity, stitching together folk balladry, mythic invocation, and a rapid-fire…

Irish cultural inheritance myth and storytelling exile and longing for home

Radiohead

A petulant office-worker fantasy in which the speaker summons an imaginary cosmic police force to arrest people who irritate him…

petty vindictiveness bureaucratic and corporate servitude dehumanisation