Table Talk

Talking over lunch with my friends Seth, Cole, and Sterling was a very great experience. At first not a lot was said, but it soon escalated when Sterling brought up the piece of literature he brought to talk about. The name of the piece was "Nice and Blue part 2" by the band Mewithoutyou. We all agreed about and discussed the meaning of each line in the song. It was relevant to us because we had all been in love before. Sterling pointed out what each line meant to him and Seth, Cole, and I found we could also relate to the lyrics. The song talks about how staying in a relationship that is not working out can be a huge hassle. The line that says, "there strapped like a watch on my wrist that's finished with gold but can't tell the time was all or what little pleasure exists seductively sold and uselessly mine" is a line that sums up the singer's troubles that are occurring in his relationship. The beautiful gold watch represents a beautiful girl, but the watch is useless because its main function is disabled. This disablement represents the superficial quality of the relationship, meaning people may view the couple as perfect for each other when the real quality of the relationship is dead. The reason why this topic became the root of our lunch discussion was because love and pain was the issue. This further backs up the love and death themes that our literature class is studying. It really does seem that when love or death or love and death are the theme in a particular piece of literature, emotions of the readers are deeply connected to that piece. Why is this? Love and death are complex because they involve multiple people, not just one person. Ever heard of a song that talked about love and not thought of at least one person...? I haven't. By the end of the song, the artist sings this line, "the true light of my eyes is a pearl equally emptied to equally shine and all or what little joy in the world seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine." Basically, we have the ability to endure a tremendous amount of pain and in the end come out on the other side with valuable lessons learned, and from these lessons we have the joy of knowing we have grown in spite of being torn down at first.