| Ryan Adams – Carolina Rain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Love Ryan. This is one of my favorite songs by him, but it's tough as hell to interpret. This is my analysis after hours of study. Please give me feedback. The narrator is involved with Rose at the beginning of the song, and he helps her kill her landlord as revenge because he evicted her and is possibly bribing her? The landlord's body is dumped in the quarry which is why they "got a ton of worry" with every "load of granite." The narrator then meets Caroline at the diner and falls in love, but she's with rich guy Alderman Haint. Percy (Caroline's sister)and the narrator obviously get married and experience a great tragedy (two pretty girls) that seems unrelated as far as I can tell, but maybe is included to show the passage of time? Alderman becomes suspicious of the narrator's desire for Caroline, so the narrator kills him and dumps his body in the quarry. Rose knows the narrator is dangerous and has a motive for killing her since she knows about how he killed the landlord. She might even think he killed his daughters. How did they die? I don't know. Rose spills the beans to protect herself. Alderman's rosary eventually "drifts into custody" of the novice sheriff. Novice sheriff isn't trusted to carry out adequate justice which is why the two angry, drunk men kill the narrator at the banquet hall. They might even think he killed his daughters. |
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