"tire scraps on federal roads
look like crash-landed crows"
always seemed to signify to me that the miner was looking at earth, or wherever he used to live, from above.
grandaddy has always had some space-age-type content in their songs, so i always imagined the miner on the moon or some planet.
however, i believe that the closer-to-home meaning of this song is more about living a life so detatched that you have to look at it through some sort of machine, as if you're not really living it.
or, of course, that you've just not been home in a really long time.
"tire scraps on federal roads look like crash-landed crows" always seemed to signify to me that the miner was looking at earth, or wherever he used to live, from above. grandaddy has always had some space-age-type content in their songs, so i always imagined the miner on the moon or some planet. however, i believe that the closer-to-home meaning of this song is more about living a life so detatched that you have to look at it through some sort of machine, as if you're not really living it. or, of course, that you've just not been home in a really long time.