| James Taylor – Millworker Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This is a song about a woman from a stable family environment who for some reason gets involved with "no good millworking man" with a drinking problem. She has 3 children with this man before he dies from "too much whiskey". If he drank that much, I'm not sure why she didn't leave the guy, but he probably did her a favor by dying. Anyway she gets "not hard" job for life from a guy that owns a mill. And somehow the mill owner turns out to be the bad guy of this sad tale. If she's one of those people that sit around feeling sorrow for herself for mistakes she has made, I wouldn't want to meet her either. I love the song. I can't get it out of my head.But it is definately a song about a glass half empty when we could be celebrating a glass half full. This is sort of an American version of Les Mis, except some Americans have no idea what real misery is. |
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