I'm betting it is about a deaf girl. I always loved this song, but never really paid attention to the lyrics. Then one day I was singing the song while walking with a friend who doesn't listen to the Weakerthans. I got up to "watch her memories of human voices drown", and she said "is that about a deaf girl or something?" and I definitely think so now. Especially since John K. seems to be stressing sound, what with all the descriptions of things making noises (Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom. Make grasses' swish meet the cricket's ring, let every rain clatter down at groaning streets, Make footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls, Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors to rooms that too much has happened in). And not to mention "words that Betta never heard". I think this is an obvious one.
I'm betting it is about a deaf girl. I always loved this song, but never really paid attention to the lyrics. Then one day I was singing the song while walking with a friend who doesn't listen to the Weakerthans. I got up to "watch her memories of human voices drown", and she said "is that about a deaf girl or something?" and I definitely think so now. Especially since John K. seems to be stressing sound, what with all the descriptions of things making noises (Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom. Make grasses' swish meet the cricket's ring, let every rain clatter down at groaning streets, Make footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls, Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors to rooms that too much has happened in). And not to mention "words that Betta never heard". I think this is an obvious one.