Weevle November 15th, 2005 09:08PM  
It's about a vacation. They go away and meet these people from their vacation spot. They become good friends for the time they're visiting. Then when they leave their new friends and head back home, they "had already forgotten [they'd] came." And then back home where the air is dirty and the people aren't friendly, they notice that they had no rememberances of their trip except their memories of it. It's kind of a sad song.

buttface March 11th, 2006 06:02PM  
It may have been written about something different, but for me it's about the transience of life. The song is just too damn good and sad to be all about just some people you met while on vacation. Like Beckett wrote, "we give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, and it's night once more". Christ, that's sad.

Sad, but sweet, too. "Where are we goin'/ is so far away", at least we're not walking alone. We're all chasing something, lookin' for that place "where everything's better...". Whether that's money, sex, material posessions, etc., we sacrifice parts of ourselves along the way. All the while cursed with the knowledge that one day we, too, will be left behind to die.

CHAD October 1st, 2008 03:49PM  
I have always been a fan of the heavier side of music, but this one has a spot on my "guilty pleasures" list. Actually,the whole album is wonderful,its called Fear. As for the song, for some reason I always interpreted it as being about a "liason" between two strangers that occurred on a day trip. I guess Im wrong,as everyones vacation theme seems far more fitting. The line that fueled my theory was the one about forgetting they were there. No matter what the true inspiration for this very soothing song, I will always picture two lovers walking back from a secret encounter at the beach, and finding they were about to be left behind, because their friends had forgotten they had came with them.Seriously though, check out the whole album, it's a nice break from the ordinary. A better question is how the heck did they come up with the name Toad the Wet Sprocket? Or maybe I'm just the only one that doesn't know!

yensid April 17th, 2009 09:25PM  
The name "Toad the Wet Sprocket" came from a scene from Monte Python, and the Flying Circus. Wonderful band! I am a huge fan! Listen to Windmills, Crazy Life, and Little Heaven!

altman89 March 14th, 2010 08:43PM  
I always took this song to be about the fleeting nature of friendships, especially those friendships which are developed due to circumstances and timeframe (vacations, for example). Maybe great people, but you know it's fleeting. In the end you go back to your ordinary life - perhaps a horrible job or school. When this song came out, I was in a horrible, snotty school and it resonated with me that the only way I was going to find friends was outside of that suffocating environment.