Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Tokyo Police Club - End of a Spark



Artist: Tokyo Police Club
Song: End of a Spark
Album: Champ
Year: 2010


“Under our bed, a monster lives; we fight his teeth with superglue and paper clips. Mark the end of an age, the way that your handwriting changed, we should always pretend, well, you just start and I'll say when…”


*A REMARK: This is a rather pretty song; my interpretation of it is about growing old and how fast life really is. The song goes quickly through several phases in our lives, focusing and starting at childhood for example when we start meeting people, and by people I don’t mean the street passerby, but our own family, for example our grandparents and how our child memory remembers them, and as we grow we have in our minds the things they said to us. Childhood is a very nice stage of our life where there are no worries, our imagination runs at 100000 miles an hour, our sense of wonder is at its peak, but as we grow up we start changing in many aspects, and suddenly we have to face reality and it’s up to us to keep the wonder of being a child within us.

I think that in the whole song there’s the acknowledgement that life goes really fast, for example in the chorus, he compares life to a spark, implying that life could go as fast as a spark disappears. I kind of interpret that at the bridge of the song he is a young adult and he keeps on acknowledging the speed of life but here he is committing himself to the premise that as long as he lives he's going to make every moment count, for example the phrase “we will always be newlyweds...” and I can also relate this to the verses as he won’t stop having this inner child and he won’t forget those moments that made him who he is now.

Finally there is this line in the song “wasting is an art” and it really is, the sole thought of deciding how to waste/spend your time on a spark-measured life makes it so. But as John Lennon once said: “Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted”.







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