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Pedal Steel Lyrics
The whole ride home I thought about your life
How you were just nineteen when you took a wife
Thought of a young man, landing in France
Braver then me, the first to show up at the dance
thought what you told me that night in Berlin
How you may lose, but there’s no way you’ll win
About leaving your country when you were just ten
You came to Wisconsin and they let you in
My heart feels like a Pedal Steel
My heart knows what is real
Of all of the books that you told me to read
Here’s my little secret if you’d stay and won’t leave
You left me your shirts, a belt buckle of pearl
A legacy for me and my girl
In this whole crazy life, so big and so small
There’s so much to enjoy, but you can’t do it all
So you start everyday with a choice to decide
You think of the others who’ve lived and who’ve died
And you pray you’ll take as much away
You’ll have lived it as well at the end of the day
Of all of the things I remember
So many times to be missed
In the end with a wink and a wave
The old man just blew me a kiss
Maybe if he’d had a son,
things might have been different somehow
Maybe I wouldn’t have known you,
and I wouldn’t feel so fucked up now
Maybe if I do my best, if I do everything I can do
I’ll consider my life a success if I’m anything like you
How you were just nineteen when you took a wife
Thought of a young man, landing in France
Braver then me, the first to show up at the dance
How you may lose, but there’s no way you’ll win
About leaving your country when you were just ten
You came to Wisconsin and they let you in
My heart knows what is real
Here’s my little secret if you’d stay and won’t leave
You left me your shirts, a belt buckle of pearl
A legacy for me and my girl
There’s so much to enjoy, but you can’t do it all
So you start everyday with a choice to decide
You think of the others who’ve lived and who’ve died
And you pray you’ll take as much away
You’ll have lived it as well at the end of the day
So many times to be missed
In the end with a wink and a wave
The old man just blew me a kiss
Maybe if he’d had a son,
things might have been different somehow
Maybe I wouldn’t have known you,
and I wouldn’t feel so fucked up now
Maybe if I do my best, if I do everything I can do
I’ll consider my life a success if I’m anything like you
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Who is he talking too? Obviously a male, possibly his grandfather? But it says the man did not have a son, so that would be impossible. The biggest question, what is a "Pedal Steel"?
a pedal steel is a type of guitar ... LoL not that that necessarily helps the meaning of the song ...
and also i'm pretty sure that the man in the song is the father of the woman that the singer is with "maybe if he'd had a son things might have been different somehow maybe i wouldn't have known 'you' (( the chick he's seeing )) and i wouldn't feel so fucked up now" like he's with this chick and things are just crazy with him and his girl and he's looking up to her dad for advice because he's like a father figure to him
?? i don't know that's just my take on it ... if that makes any sense
and also i'm pretty sure that the man in the song is the father of the woman that the singer is with "maybe if he'd had a son things might have been different somehow maybe i wouldn't have known 'you' (( the chick he's seeing )) and i wouldn't feel so fucked up now" like he's with this chick and things are just crazy with him and his girl and he's looking up to her dad for advice because he's like a father figure to him
?? i don't know that's just my take on it ... if that makes any sense
This song is about Stephen's grandfather.