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I lost all of my vanity when I peered into the pool
I lost all of my innocence
When I fell in love with you
I never knew a man fall so far until I landed here
Where all of my wounds they turned into gold when I kissed your hair
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
Hannah won't you to come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
Ask her why she cries so loud
She will not say a word
Eyes like ice and hands that shake
She takes what she deserves
To celebrate her emptiness
In a cold and lonely room
Sweep the floor with your long flowered dress
If you cannot find a broom
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
She's got hair that flows right down
Right down to the backs of her knees
Her Papa he was a preaching man
And the Lord is hard to please
So she comes down from the ozark hills to these very streets to roam
With a banjo and a bible and a fine tooth comb
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine if you just be kind to me
I'd walk one mile on this broken glass
to fall down at your feet
Oh Hannah you're the queen of the street
I climb the tree with my Hannahlee
My intentions they were pure
Oh the breeze did whip and I lost my grip
And I tumbled towards the earth
Where you never would guess who it was that stood below
And His name I would never tell
But His eyes were clear
And His arms were strong
And He caught me as I fell
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come on to me
I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'd just be kind to me
Now I'd walk one mile on just broken glass
To fall down at your feet
Hannah you're the queen of the street
Hannah you're the queen of the street
I lost all of my innocence
When I fell in love with you
I never knew a man fall so far until I landed here
Where all of my wounds they turned into gold when I kissed your hair
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
Hannah won't you to come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
Ask her why she cries so loud
She will not say a word
Eyes like ice and hands that shake
She takes what she deserves
To celebrate her emptiness
In a cold and lonely room
Sweep the floor with your long flowered dress
If you cannot find a broom
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
She's got hair that flows right down
Right down to the backs of her knees
Her Papa he was a preaching man
And the Lord is hard to please
So she comes down from the ozark hills to these very streets to roam
With a banjo and a bible and a fine tooth comb
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come home to me
And I'll lay down this bottle of wine if you just be kind to me
I'd walk one mile on this broken glass
to fall down at your feet
Oh Hannah you're the queen of the street
I climb the tree with my Hannahlee
My intentions they were pure
Oh the breeze did whip and I lost my grip
And I tumbled towards the earth
Where you never would guess who it was that stood below
And His name I would never tell
But His eyes were clear
And His arms were strong
And He caught me as I fell
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come on to me
I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'd just be kind to me
Now I'd walk one mile on just broken glass
To fall down at your feet
Hannah you're the queen of the street
Hannah you're the queen of the street
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tmk-Think about the entire context of the song. The guy is a lonely alcoholic who senses the same thing in Hannah. He'll "lay down" the bottle of wine to be with her, because she would save him. When he falls out of the tree and into "his" arms, it's like when people enter AA and give their life to God because they can't manage it anymore. Therefore, he'd walk all over the broken glass of the empty alcohol bottles to be with his Hannah, and since his reaffirmation of God they would have faith in common to keep them together (since she's a pastor's daughter) and also to keep him sober.
Sounds exactly like "The Weight" by The Band
what do you think "i'll lay down this bottle of wine if youll just be kind to me" means?
I think he drinks to numb himself from the hurt of not having her and he says Ill stop drinking if you will just be with me.
I think he drinks to numb himself from the hurt of not having her and he says Ill stop drinking if you will just be with me.
My intentions they were pure Oh the breeze did whip and I lost my grip And I tumbled towards the earth Where you never would guess who it was that stood below And His name I would never tell But His eyes were clear And His arms were strong And He caught me as I fell
Given the rest of the song, my interpretation is:
He [singer] began to get his affairs in order -- most likely but not necessarily "laying down" the bottle -- so as to gain Hannah's approval. This seems congruent with his intentions being "pure". During the process, he slipped -- i.e., messed up -- and backtracked on whatever progress he had made. Hence falling back toward the earth. Being caught seems to be a fairly blunt spiritual reference. (In my reading, it doesn't make sense for the singer to be "caught" by alcohol given the contrast between his "purity" in climbing the tree and the iniquity in falling. It would seem logical for the "catcher" here to be affectively positive.)
That said, this falls apart if you treat the wind that "did whip" as the flights of happenstance. In which case, his pure attempt to catch Hannah failed, pushing him back into the arms of alcohol. Not a bad interpretation there either.
MY NAME IS HANNAH! This song is beautiful. I absolutly love it. I suggest EVERYONE download it.
I'M HANNAH TOO!!!!!! It's probably really sad that i typed my name into the search engine to find a song with my name in it. I really want to hear this now.....
My name is Hannah. and my dad is a pastor. ... weird.
yeah. it is pretty sad that you typed your name in the search bar. but then again. I did too. =P
I kinda have a thing for Hannah's and this song is amazing.
Hannah is unreachable. She's this empty lonely figure who is so full of integrity but no self belief to act on it.
"Hannah wont you come home to me?" Ray wants to be the thing that she can call home. He wants to break through her barriers, but the tentative question remains - Will she allow him, the man who loves her to do so?