Yontwocrows, thank you so much for the link! There is that comment that is the longest one, and that commenter really seems to nail it! Finally the change in the perspectives and time levels makes sense! Something that I had trouble with since the song was released... Also the simple idea that two hobos or ragpickers ARE really sitting in a restaurant (which fitted with my idea) and are thrown out (which also fitted) because of not paying or making a gesture or some other reason is fitting perfectly. The DREAM is very important here, as the song title implies, and I had never kept notice of that.
Another one writes that he always gets a good mood when he hears this song because the lyrics are so happy and heartwarming.. I cannot agree to that. Yes, the music and the lyrics have a warmth, but a bitter one. I more feel like crying to be honest when I think about those poor two chaps.. the song is full of pity and overflowing sympathy.. a contrast to the empty, loud and crazy christmas time racket and noise from these days...
I do feel however a growing admiration and pure adoration for Mark more and more that he is capable of writing such great songs. Pure lyric, so well crafted, phantastic masterpiece, I am now more convinced than ever that MK is a brilliant songwriter...
LE
