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| Jason Isbell – Speed Trap Town Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think by "still walking around" the storyteller in the song means back when his dad was still a healthy womanizer, before he became an invalid. |
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| Jason Isbell – Speed Trap Town Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I really like this song. It's obvious by the lyrics that the songs protagonist has suffered a traumatic loss, but it's not obvious what I was. There are hints in the lyrics that let you infer that he's recently lost the only person he feels close to( possibly his mother), and he realizes that his father who has been in that I. C. U. for over a year ( possibly in a coma) is not going to recover, and that his hometown holds nothing for him but heartache, so he signs to have his dad taken off life support and he says his last goodbyes. Then he pulls out of town and keeps driving as far as he can until he's "a thousand miles away from that speed trap town. The song is beautiful, but it's also desperate and haunting. |
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