just ignore if you’ve never heard the song lol but if you have, how do you interpret the song first day of my life by bright eyes?? Like I’ve seen people say it’s just a pure hopeful love song while other people say it’s actually pretty sad/ cynical.
I always get confused by ‘ I’d rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery’ line like I sometimes think I get what it means but when I try putting it into words I just can’t.
as a matter of fact, i do know this song, because my bf is a gigantic bright eyes fan. so i asked him! (also he was really excited to know y'all listen to bright eyes haha.)
'i'd say it's hopeful. if you watch at the music video, you'll see that it's very hopeful and optimistic, and he probably had a hand in making it, so i think the song is optimistic too. i think that line about the lottery just means you're going to put effort into making your relationship work, rather than believe you'll one day wake up and find a perfect person. he's really excited to be with this person and wants things to work. plus, almost all of his music is fundamentally hopeful, he deals with a lot of really difficult and heavy things, even self loathing, but there's very little despair. he's not a very cynical songwriter. he's earnest.'