Frail Grasp On The Big Picture

Album: Long Road Out Of Eden (2007)

Songfacts®:

  • This song is about shortsightedness of our society; three different aspects of it. The first part is how real journalism is dead and gone in America but that doesn't bother people of thinking they know it all. The second part criticizes short-term relationships - the lyrics "Who left the cap off the freakin' toothpaste?" and "Whose turn to take the garbage out?" is a down-to-earth view on long-term relationships. The third part is insight into shallowness of people's religious views.

    It is talking about how people are too focused on little things. like the "eternal question" of who left the cap off the toothpaste. Or assuming the win of a football team is not only part of God's grand design, but IS God's grand design, not even considering there are more important things in life. >>
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    Garrett - Cookeville, TN
  • The Eagles' dynamic duo of Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote this song, with Henley doing the lead vocal. It's part of their last studio album, Long Road Out Of Eden, their first since The Long Run 28 years earlier. After breaking up in 1980, the group started touring again in 1994 but didn't have the bandwidth to complete a full album of new material until 2007, in part because Henley and Frey became fathers late in life and had three children each. Digital technology made it easier for them to work in the '00s, allowing them to collaborate through email and file sharing from their homes. Still, both were meticulous songwriters and could spend years refining a song.

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