The seeds are planted here
But they won’t grow
We won’t have to say goodbye
If we all go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
To leave all we’ve ever known
For a place we’ve never seen
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Well It’s braver to stay
Even braver to go
Wherever she goes I go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
What we need the lord will give us
All we want we carry with us
You know where I can be found
Where the rainbow hits the ground
I’m not alone
I’m not afraid
This bird has flown from his cage
There’s so much magic we have known
On this sapphire we call home
With my coat and my hat
I say goodbye to all that
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
But they won’t grow
We won’t have to say goodbye
If we all go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
To leave all we’ve ever known
For a place we’ve never seen
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Well It’s braver to stay
Even braver to go
Wherever she goes I go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
All we want we carry with us
You know where I can be found
Where the rainbow hits the ground
I’m not alone
I’m not afraid
This bird has flown from his cage
There’s so much magic we have known
On this sapphire we call home
With my coat and my hat
I say goodbye to all that
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
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Sounds like a man who is feeling troubled about his decision to follow a girl away from his home, to Chicago specifically. He's only going because she's going, and he doesn't know if it's going to be better or not. But he hopes it will be.
I believe it's "it's brave of us to stay", not "it's braver to stay".
I always pictured it as being about America after the apocalypse, when it's become a wasteland, and people live in small, scattered communities. And this is about one place being used up("The seeds are planted here, but they won't grow"), and the singer is trying to convince the others to move to a new place ("We won't have to say goodbye, if we all go"), namely, the remnants of Chicago.
i think of the Immigration in the Early 1900s
where poor farmers from europe was hoping for a better life in the states
typical 'grass is greener on the other side' song. still very good though
also with elements of the american dream concept
also with elements of the american dream concept