Once David told me this song is not about his own family, but the family of a friend or girlfriend who was celebrating a holiday while mourning a death in the family that was a suicide. It is a great song, and subtle because it doesn't mention suicide at all except for the line about "powder-burn blue," like the powder burns from a rifle or gun. Also the lyric is "See how the time is frozen cold." I think this becasue it rhymes with "old" from the the next line.
Once David told me this song is not about his own family, but the family of a friend or girlfriend who was celebrating a holiday while mourning a death in the family that was a suicide. It is a great song, and subtle because it doesn't mention suicide at all except for the line about "powder-burn blue," like the powder burns from a rifle or gun. Also the lyric is "See how the time is frozen cold." I think this becasue it rhymes with "old" from the the next line.