![]() Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. All sanity, rational thought, fall over the edge, and break down. The tipping point goes, and a release happens. The pressure, the pain, sadness, existential loneliness, and the exhaustion of fighting, over & over & over eventually sending one to the precipice. I understand the lyrics on a profound level. \n\nI\'ve traveled to the edge of madness myself in the past. “Why didn\'t I know? What could I have done/changed? Why can\'t I reach you? If only I loved you more”. \nWhether Familial, parental, friend, or relationship dynamic the process is the same. \nWhat\'s beautiful about this song is it applies to any type of relationship with a suicidal person, not just a lover. \nThe rest of the lyrics are a plea and bargain to the person, and talking to themselves (guilt). \nThe witness empathizes|- I don’t blame you for quitting, a sense of beauty in release (pain is over, expectations gone). \n“If only you could hang on through the night” - the hours left unobserved, whether in hospital, or the watcher sleeps. I don\'t know if it was written for the film, K-PAX, with that very theme, or was used. And ultimately losing them to physical or psychic (cationic) suicide. This song is about witnessing a person you love slipping into madness. ![]() “The scent of the fragrant pines, the tang of the salty sea will call us home.If only you could hang on through the night The songs may not be well known smash hits about our State, but whether we are singing about it, or not, living it is sure a special treat. For West Virginia, Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver. Boson by Kenny Chesney for Massachusetts. Coal Miner’s Daughter for Kentucky by Loretta Lynn. Rocky Mountain High by John Denver for Colorado. Ray Charles Georgia on My Mind is an example.Ĭalifornia Here We Come, Right Back Where We Started from. New Jersey is the only state to have never named an official state song. Then there is California band Weezer and their longing for a simpler lifestyle and Maine in Long Time Sunshine. ![]() More recently, in 2019 The Ballad of the 20 th Maine by The Ghost of Paul Revere was confirmed as the official state ballad. King of The Road might have been adopted as the song.
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