| Van Morrison – Redwood Tree Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| it's about the relationship between father and son. if you were lucky, as a boy you had a dog and he was your companion wherever you went... in this case out running through the streams and meadows... "laughing all the way". then the rains and thunder came and they got caught in it and separated. the boy returns with his father searching... "what haven't they learned since they did that together"? they never learned what it's like to share in such a loss, BUT "since that very day"... the experience has taught them (as father and son) many things. the redwood tree i believe is metaphoric, it represents shelter from physical (rain and thunder) and emotional harm ("he already had departed", i believe the dog died). this is my favorite of his songs and it's a relatively obscure work amongst the hundreds of his writings. | |
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