The context is "Least Complicated" (http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/faves/songs/least.html), by The Indigo Girls. I think perhaps part of the reason I remembered that line separate from the rest of the song is that it seems to apply to so much beyond the context of the song. I guess thinking about that line, I keep expecting the scope of the rest of the song to be broader -- like "Closer To Fine" (http://www.thesonglyrics.com/i_song_lyrics/indigogirls_lyric2.html) or the "make you think wider despite the personal focus" effect of "Galileo" (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/I/Indigo%20Girls/Indigo%20Girls%20-%20Galileo%20lyrics.htm) -- so I've got a cognitive disconnect (not a dissonance so much as a gap) between that line and the verses.
So your connection of that lyric to something in your everyday life makes perfect sense to me -- that's the context I hear it in even when I'm listening to the song it's from.
Of course, a side effect of looking up URLs of lyrics is that now I've got "This Train Revised" (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/I/Indigo%20Girls/Indigo%20Girls%20-%20This%20Train%20Revised%20lyrics.htm) going through my head, with all the guitar parts and everything. I'm going to have to dig up my copy of Swamp Ophelia and put it back in the CD player after all.
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So your connection of that lyric to something in your everyday life makes perfect sense to me -- that's the context I hear it in even when I'm listening to the song it's from.
Of course, a side effect of looking up URLs of lyrics is that now I've got "This Train Revised" (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/I/Indigo%20Girls/Indigo%20Girls%20-%20This%20Train%20Revised%20lyrics.htm) going through my head, with all the guitar parts and everything. I'm going to have to dig up my copy of Swamp Ophelia and put it back in the CD player after all.