In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Dig a slow hole to China
Blacker than a miner
No turn un-stoned I trample
Hold my candle's handle
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
My blue cow
Gotta get her back here somehow
My brown bag
Never gonna guess what I have
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
If it's too shallow then dig it more deep
If it's too narrow then dig it more wide
If you see a point of light
Shake hands with the other side
If it's too shallow then dig it more deep
If it's too narrow then dig it more wide
If you see the point of light
Shake hands with the other side
A lighthouse in Kentucky
Oh I should be so lucky
Sell fill dirt to the groundlings
And water to the drowning
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
Blacker than a miner
No turn un-stoned I trample
Hold my candle's handle
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
My blue cow
Gotta get her back here somehow
My brown bag
Never gonna guess what I have
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
If it's too shallow then dig it more deep
If it's too narrow then dig it more wide
If you see a point of light
Shake hands with the other side
If it's too shallow then dig it more deep
If it's too narrow then dig it more wide
If you see the point of light
Shake hands with the other side
A lighthouse in Kentucky
Oh I should be so lucky
Sell fill dirt to the groundlings
And water to the drowning
Mama always said
"You better come home"
Stuck in the mud
Dug a slow hole
Lyrics submitted by almostmanda
Slow Hole To China Lyrics as written by Jean-paul Gaster Dan Maines
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I think this song could be lamenting the excessive amount of jobs that get outsourced to China. I could be wrong but it kinda makes sense to me. Mining, specifically, is an industry that has been sent to China.
Then again it could just be a story about a miner who gets trapped and tries to dig himself out the other side (or a metaphor for a similar predicament).