This song may be the best cowboy junkies song of all...what does it mean? Well, the short version is this: a lamentation is an audible expression of grief or sorrow; reading through the lyrics, someone is on trial and is going to be convicted and sentenced to death, but they don't want to die/they don't want to go. They go back and forth between just being ready to die, and wanting to live. Their ability to dream is giving them hope they might just live after all...
That's the best I can come up with on short notice.
It may be the best CJ song of all, but it was written by Townes Van Zandt. He toured, opening, with them for a year, and he wrote this for them. What an honor, to share the stage with Townes. One of the great songwriters of all time.
It may be the best CJ song of all, but it was written by Townes Van Zandt. He toured, opening, with them for a year, and he wrote this for them. What an honor, to share the stage with Townes. One of the great songwriters of all time.
This song may be the best cowboy junkies song of all...what does it mean? Well, the short version is this: a lamentation is an audible expression of grief or sorrow; reading through the lyrics, someone is on trial and is going to be convicted and sentenced to death, but they don't want to die/they don't want to go. They go back and forth between just being ready to die, and wanting to live. Their ability to dream is giving them hope they might just live after all...
That's the best I can come up with on short notice.
It may be the best CJ song of all, but it was written by Townes Van Zandt. He toured, opening, with them for a year, and he wrote this for them. What an honor, to share the stage with Townes. One of the great songwriters of all time.
It may be the best CJ song of all, but it was written by Townes Van Zandt. He toured, opening, with them for a year, and he wrote this for them. What an honor, to share the stage with Townes. One of the great songwriters of all time.