| Willie Nelson – Seven Spanish Angels Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Riders were coming to take him back to Texas. It is a country song, so a posse of some sort. The lovers at an are at "the altar of the sun." There is also "thunder from the throne" and "seven Spanish angels." My image is of an Aztec ruin, maybe a pyramid with an altar and seat at the top. The angels seem to me best explained as statuary at a church. If there were an Aztec temple which was not destroyed, it makes sense that a Christian Church might be built nearby. So the image, for me, is of Mexico, a hot day with cumulo-nimbus clouds, a Mexican girl brought her lover deep into Mexico (bandito territory - the valley of the gun) to escape from the law in Texas and to claim the sanctuary of her home church. There is a shootout. Sudden silence, smoke clears(from black powder cartridge weapons so that makes it very late nineteenth or very early twentieth centruy) and then thunder from above, seemingly from the ruins. A lot of very good atmospherics. | |
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