Bored to Death

Album: Easy Street (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • "A lot of my songs these days are about my phone," Eric Hutchinson told Songfacts about this track from his fourth major-label album, Easy Street, where he sings:

    I don't go out, prefer stare at my phone
    Afraid of what I might be missing at home


    Many could relate to this feeling of being transfixed by that magical device that is always by their side.
  • The "reflection" Hutchinson sings about here is both literal and figurative. "I'm constantly battling to find a mix of staying current, but also staying present," he said in a Songfacts interview. "I find the phone really fascinating, because one one hand it's a mirror for everybody, because you look at it and it's got all of your information exactly where you want it - it's you reflected back at you. But it's also a window, because it looks out into the world. And that's how I learn about the world and stay up with my friends in the news."

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