Don't Let the Days Go By (Glycerine)

This has been a favorite song of mine since before I can remember. Another one from my dad's '90s collection (I must be in a mood or something), it's always beautiful and I always seem to glean something a little different. And so I've read lots of fan interpretations of this song and they are all different, haha. What that says to me is that each person that listens to it can take from it what they wish, and normally it's based on their own life situation or perspective. Love songs like that. It's how we work through stuff. So the following is my interpretation, and I'd be very interested to hear anyone else's as well.

First off, this is a very sensual song, i.e., 'beautiful taste', 'must be your skin that I'm sinkin' in', 'now I can feel'; so obviously I choose to interpret it as a love song :). There are obvious issues between the couple, but it seems that they just love each other so much that it seems to pass over them after the initial emotional outbursts. The chorus is interesting to me, and my interpretation may be a little far-fetched, though poetic definitely. Glycerine as an explosive substance echoes what I've said about the 'emotional outbursts' and mirrors it in the general state of life on Earth, namely the Big Bang. Life is created, life is ended, the cycle continues. As far as we know, we only get one of these so we'd better heed Rossdale's warning of 'don't let the days go by' (basically 'cause everything can blow up in an instant). Love the little moments and always seek and come back to the 'strawberry fields', the surreality, the fantasy, even in the midst of turbulence in life. The 'bad moon's white again' but so what? She (or he) falls around me and it's all okay.

Of course there's an underlying lullaby of drug abuse, but that's specific to one kind of person but relatable, translatable to many.

Love it! Peace.