Reply To: What do you want to ask JoCo? (was: What do you want to know?)
I always saw it as the fact that going to casual dining restaurant Appleby’s and getting tipsy on daquiris is all the fun this suburban husband (not being biased, but it seems like it’s sung by a man, and JoCo claims that he wrote it while using a shop vac, thinking about how a suburban picket-fence life would be hell) is allowed to have, now that he has a wife and kids and lives in the burbs.
This is really one of the most depressing songs JoCo has written, especially if you read into all that forum subtext about the two news articles at the end of the song being about the man going postal and killing everyone and himself, so now he is literally “up above the house and looking down” wanting to go “back there”.