The title "Country Feedback" makes me think of that old joke, "What happens when you play country music backwards? You get your wife back, your kids back, your house back..." I'm thinking Country Feedback is what happens when you take a country song about a supposedly no-good spouse or lover that done up and left, and give them a song to tell their side of the story. Either way it's clearly about a relationship that, in the eyes of the singer, is beyond saving.
The scorched flower is the passion that has died, and the film's maddening loop is the perpetual rut of the decaying relationship. The clothes that don't fit us right are the roles the two are trying to play, the act of a sham marriage. And of course, according to the spouse/lover (and possibly their country song), they did nothing wrong and everything is his fault. He's getting worn out by his lover always having a bone to pick, always being way too uptight, and having all kinds of positions and excuses why they're doing everything right and he's the one ruining their relationship.
But they've been through all this shit in the course of trying to save the relationship, and nothing's worked. When he sings "I need this," he means a breakup or divorce.
When I thought "winter rain" was actually "wedding ring" I had this clever idea that the line was saying his wedding ring was as good as a paperweight, and that his wife's honey pot was as good as a junk garage, but now that I know better I'm not sure what the line means.
It's crazy how good you could have had it if only you had treated me right and not been so selfish, the song says at the end, but it's too late now and I need to let this failed relationship go.
dxyseilcon June 29, 2012 Link
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