It’s times like these that Ithaca really starts to feel isolated — from family, from friends, from the rest of civilization. Cornell can feel like a bubble sometimes, separated from the rest of the world. It’s about homesickness, missing your family, yearning for your childhood, and the feeling of being so far away. And this song in particular (“a minute from home but I feel so far from it”) just fits so perfectly. It is also such a soft, pretty song to close on.
