He is sacrificing the time he could be spending with them so that they can grow up in a better place. He LOVES his job and takes pride in the fact that even though he is gone from his family so much, that he is building a better life for them. However he is pointing out that he isn't the man they think he is. Their perception is that he is stuck in a menial job, and that he is a bad father/husband because he is gone so much from home. They don't see how someone could possibly enjoy that work. Many people refer to the place and people they knew in school as "home".Ī lot of people view most blue collar workers as not being smart or skilled enough to get a better job. I think home isn't his house, his family, but rather his hometown and the people he grew up with.
"I'm not the man they think I am at home". Rather than sucking out his soul, I think he takes pride in his work. There are a lot of people who commute long distances because they would rather their kids grew up in the suburbs or the country rather than in the city, which many people feel is cold and impersonal. They could relocate their family to be closer to where they work, but the place is inhospitable and not really something they want their kids around.
COLD COLD HEART LYRICS ELTON JOHN MEANING DRIVERS
This is the case with many blue collar workers, especially truck drivers and oil field personnel. I think the song is about how he is doing everything he can to make life better for his family, by working at a job that takes him away from them for extended periods. Rather than burning out his fuse referring to being burnt out with the way he feels about his job, I think it is more a "spacey" reference to burning your candle at both ends. I don't think he is so much disillusioned with his job, after all he does say "I'm a Rocket Man" with some pride. It's all an I agree with the comparison to a blue collar job, I have a different take on a few things. These "jobs" consume our lives, envelop our being, and suck out our souls, as we make sacrifices like being away from our homes "five days a week", or relocating to horrible places to find work (like Oklahoma, or Detroit, or Indiana, or North Dakota, or "Mars"), none of which are the kind of place you would want to "raise your kids", but we still do, because we don't really have a choice, as we toil away to make our livings, burning out our fuses, all alone. No matter what we do for a living, whether it is something as high-tech and sophisticated as being an astronaut, as complex as being a physician, or as simple as being a street sweeper, we're just minor cogs in a massive preprogrammed economic machine, just "doing our jobs" 5 days a week, not truly understanding the "science" behind the mechanical tasks that we repetitiously perform day in, day out. Anyone who has worked for a "long, long time", and is beyond the phase of disilusionment that accompanies the enthusiasm and excitement of youth, understands this. It expresses the lonliness, hopelessness, boredom, repetitiveness, routine, and drudgery of working life on the road, in the field, in an office, on a job site, in a lab, in a truck, week in, week out. Rocket Man is actually about comparing the life of an astronaut to that of an everyday shlub working stiff, whether he be a traveling salesman, a factory worker, a field engineer, an oil rig dude, a trucker, an accountant, a construction worker, a doctor, or whatever. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kidsĪnd there's no one there to raise them if you did Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone 'Til touch down brings me round again to find And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
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