What do you think Alice Childress means?

Ben Folds Five - Alice Childress Meaning

Tagged:   No tags, suggest one.
Album cover for Alice Childress album cover

Alice Childress Lyrics

Some summers in the evening after 6 or so
I walk on down the hill
And maybe buy a beer
I think about my friends
Sometimes I wish they lived out here
But they wouldn't dig this town
No they wouldn't dig this town

Try not to think about...

  1. ben
    click a star to vote
    Apr 20th 2005 !⃝

    This song seems to be about a woman who has given up after losing faith in humanity (possibly after an arranged marriage?). The narrarator is trying to comfort her, telling her to simply pretend there are some good people.

    Later in the song, the narrator himself is mugged outside his house. The theif takes "everything I had, and everything I have" which I take to mean he took both his possessions and his faith in humanity.


More Ben Folds Five songs »


 


 


Submit Your Interpretation

[ want a different song? ]




Just Posted

Asking for It anonymous
Same Mistake anonymous
Suicide Hotline anonymous
Dollhouse anonymous
Severed OuroBorosGhost
Parade anonymous
Yonkers anonymous
Tremor Christ anonymous
Little Talks anonymous
Little Talks anonymous
Can't Feel My Face anonymous
You Belong to the City anonymous
Give It Away anonymous
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) anonymous
Hemorrhage (In My Hands) anonymous

(We won't give out your email)