Buffalo Tom - 'Taillights Fade'

Have you ever found yourself in a slump?  A slump so deep and cavernous all you saw was darkness?  And while you might speculate as to how you got to that forsaken spot, you could never truly understand how you arrived in the void in the first place? 

Boston's Buffalo Tom penned one of the band's most lionized hits when they composed a song dealing with this subject matter on 1992's Let Me Come Over.  

In a 2017 interview with Jeff Gora on Artistwaves.com, Buffalo Tom's guitarist/lead singer, Bill Janovitz, described 'Taillights Fade' as a song "about being resigned, giving up, feeling older than your years, feeling apart and alienated."

The lyrics most certainly channel that sentiment of anguish and despair:

I've hit the wall

I'm about to fall

But I'm closing in on it

I feel so small

Underneath it all

Watch my taillights fade to black

Admittedly, I was ignorant to Buffalo Tom in my teens and twenties.  But now as a middle-ager, songs like 'Taillights Fade' occupy new and significant meaning.  Life can be such a blur when it comes to parenting, spousing, and working, that it can be hard to keep up.  It can seem you have hit a wall with nowhere else to go.  And it is easy to feel small.  To escape, it can be tempting to drive off into the night, with those you left behind slowly watching your taillights fade to black...