{The Kinks - Strangers}
I’m pretty sure this song is about one of two things:
1. A grand dichotomy, one we all face at some point(s) in our lives: reaching a level of despair so deep, losing so much hope, that you are compelled to live - LIVE! A man simultaneously fleeing and seeking. He’s found something - a feeling, a notion, a memory, an idea, a part of himself maybe - and with it solidarity. He doesn’t care where they go or what they bring, as long as they are with each other and as long as it’s not here. Here is rotten. Stasis is a sin. None of it matters so much that everything matters not one bit. It’s wonderfully sad and terribly encouraging. Dreading each step yet not wanting it - IT - to end. Not now. There is too much to find out. Most of it hurts. And if I live too long I’m afraid I’ll die
2. Hitchhiking.
