No, I am afraid not. But thanks for your input.
I know all that about red or brown. In fact it was me suggesting that earlier in this thread. I also know about how MK usually writes.
My point is that the song shows a likeable character and is written from a very understanding point of view, but later in interviews MK is talking disparagingly about the type of man.
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I think one shouldn't attach too much importance to the critical assessment of the character in what are most of the time superficial interviews. When MK is asked about characters in a song for the 100th time his answers are not always differentiated and very seldomly he talks about the true meaning of them for himself.
As well as the song Skydiver, My Bacon Roll is about more than just one character. MK also said in an interview that a friend told him about these team building seminars and that his friend couldn't see any meaning in them. So together with the "Brexit Man" in the restaurant we have at least two characters that feel/are out of place.
You can see these "out of place" characters from a
neutral point of you: all of us feel out of place at some point.
Or you can see that from a
compassionate point of view or from a
disparaging point of view.
I think the song works on all three levels.
One shouldn't attach too much importance to just one or two interviews.
Finally what made a lasting impression on me during the first shows of the tour is MK's gesture pointing towards himself when he sang the line "and so am I". Subjectively I thought given his rather frail health status at the beginning of the tour, this gesture could also mean that he himself towards the end of his touring career could feel a litte fallen out of time and place, but that really is just my subjective little interpretation. But this gesture was the most memorable for me in the early shows.
