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March 4, 2024
song #25
How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty
It was released on September 4, 2007
Fun Fact: The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia announced that “How Far We’ve Come” was the most played recording in Australia in 2008. The PPCA also announced that Matchbox Twenty was the third most played artist in 2008.
March 4, 2024
song #25
How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty
It was released on September 4, 2007
Fun Fact: The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia announced that “How Far We’ve Come” was the most played recording in Australia in 2008. The PPCA also announced that Matchbox Twenty was the third most played artist in 2008.
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The people fade away and all stars are just a flicker // And you're left there all alone // When there's so much more that you could see if you just stick around // All the street light secrets whispering for you to come back out
Love this song from Matchbox Twenty! I’m a huge fan of Rob Thomas, both vocally and lyrically. I love how this song starts the North album. These lyrics are beautiful to me, and like always, I love the emotion and intensity Rob brings to every word. I also love the instrumentation and how it complements Rob’s voice and lyrics so well.
In this essay I will be explaining why the song Crutch by Match Box Twenty is the most hilson song to exist.
Well, I don't want to be the crutch
One step away from down
Well, I don't want to be the crutch
One step away from
So I imagine this song mostly from Wilson's perspective. It's a telling of how Wilson is holding house up, how houses cane holds him up physically but Wilson is his emotional crutch. Every time house has a problem he goes to Wilson and every once in a while Wilson becomes fed up with it, therefore he doesn't want to be the crutch one step away from falling apart.
Man I feel like hell, so come on over
Be a love machine and I could be your friend
Ain't no shame, feel strong for one another
Make a real true color come end to end, then
Goddamn, change of pace
I think you've got a piece of my heart on your face
It's a shame to let it waste
How does it taste?
How does it taste?
The first too lines just express what hilson is, two friends that are literally a love machine feeling like hell. House and Wilson bring out another side of each other and more specifically Wilson brings out the color and empathy in house. I interpret the next few lines as the change of pace being from being friends, some sort of boarder-line homoerotic relationship to anger, jealousy, self sabotage, and all the words in between. Yet through that, house has a part of Wilson's heart, his empathy.
Break it down in pieces, make it simple
'Cause you know damn well that I'm a simple man
All these things go changing like the weather
And they stay that way until the weather man says
One down, gone to waste
I think there's still a piece of that smile on your face
And I would like it erased
There ain't no two ways about it, no
Okay this verse to me says once again their relationship changing constantly from best friends to anger real fast. You can also interpret the first line more like breaking Wilson down, a man who is so weirdly normal. Similar to the heart line, the smile on houses face come from being with Wilson but in cases like ambers death, Wilson wants all that back thinking it's all a waste.
Bring it on then gone, use a lover
Like a cigarette the way that lovers do
One sweet song that starts a little slow and
Then goes on and on and makes you want to
Move around the room in circles
Everybody wants to be you
Try to find my place up on the map
Of all the men you've been through
Dig a little deeper and you'll realize
All I'm building up you're tearing down
First two lines express how house uses and manipulates Wilson. Uses him to feel good then tosses him to the side like a cigarette. Then it shows how Wilson is trying to find a place in houses life considering all his own wives and then all the people house dated or hooked up with. Everything Wilson create for himself or for house is quickly taken down by houses self destructive tendencies.
All you needed was a crutch
One step away from down
And I could never be your crutch
I could break you down
And I don't want to be the crutch
Hey, I don't want to be the crutch
No, I don't want to be the crutch
One step away from
The outro of the song changes from the chorus saying "all you needed was a crutch" and "I could never be your crutch" which is a lie. Wilson to be frank loves being houses crutch. He loves feeling needed and he loves house being needy, they feed into each other is the most tragic and heartbreakingly beautiful way.
And to conclude this lecture, if any of you have any hilson playlists I would love to see them and I'm probably gonna do more if this because no one else wants to hear about this.
My hilson playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2dMOuxvPZS3ydf9Cwbu5za?si=djkPuhrVQgS87IW7LeGMvw&pi=u-NzdGYAGnSnWB