| Matthew Barber – Where The River River Bends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I was really hoping someone else had commented on this song because I'm unsure as to its meaning. It seems as though he's talking about some sort of change or life decision that someone he knows and loves needs to make. At the beginning he is giving them a little taste of it or something....but then I thought more about it and it almost seems as though he's talking to his lover. She (or he, I don't know much about Matthew Barber...mostly that I love this song) is madly in love for the first time - 'tell me what you feel..is this a fake or is it for real, is it something strange that you never seen' - and wants to get married - this is 'where the river bends' - something where the beginning seems exciting and new, but often the end result is unsatisfactory and disappointing - 'water's not as blue, and the grass well it ain't so green'. Perhaps the singer has been married before - 'where the river bends, is a place I've been' - but he doesn't want to go there again, because it just effed up the relationship with his first spouse, and he doesn't want to mess this one up - 'but I don't want to go there baby not with you' - and is trying to explain to his lover that they don't want to go there together, it'll just mess things up. It seems as though this song is suggesting a different kind of 'marriage' - 'I'm happy right here...let's stay awhile and invite our friends' - and in it are his vows as well - 'I'm gonna be with you right here till the very end, so let's stay forever and ever and ever amen'. I don't know...just guessing? |
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