And I hope one he'll say to him, 'put down those bubbles, and that belt buckle, in this broken bubble." This shows the boy in the bubble understands. He says in the song, "Well there's no excuse for the things he did, but there's a lot at home he's dealing with because his was drunk since he was a kid. The way I personally would interpret it, is that the boy who is being bullied doesn't want to give the bully the satisfaction by fighting back, and yet at the same time, he is being empathetic for the bully. The bully probably feels alone with his situation. I mean, different situation sure, but how their situations are making them feel really isn't that different. However, years earlier Simon wrote the gorgeous standard Bridge Over Troubled Water. Cumulatively it is not unlike being bowled over by a tsunami. In a way, the boy who is the bully and the boy who was the victim really aren't that different. Paul Simon’s The Boy in the Bubble is a surreal, chain-of-consciousness epic that fires idea after idea at us machine-gun style so that in the end the effect is almost pointillist. It shows that the boy in the bubble is trying be empathetic. The bully is dealing with his drunk and abusive father. Then there's the part in which perspective is reversed. He says that the he doesn't fight back to give the bully the satisfaction. And rather than fighting back, he simply let the bully beat him. In the music video (if you have not seen it. The boy in the bubble, the boy getting bullied, clearly feels alone in some way, given the bubble. And this broken bubble, he is saying that the bullys innocence was already gone with the situation in his home.
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