Just a thought- might this be of war (possibly the civil) and of a man who left his home and lady to fight? "Freedom, a fever you suffered through" IE fighting for the south's independance. And when he returns home (or dies and sees his home from death) he finds it was destroyed during the war. He talks of the shift in his own faith, using the transfer of the Jesus line; talks of the eventual loss of the war with the freedom line. I love how it transfers the usual "The south will rise again" to a peaceful and more potent resulotion when he says "and the guitar rose again." Absolutey spectacular song- just as every other one by Iron and Wine.
Just a thought- might this be of war (possibly the civil) and of a man who left his home and lady to fight? "Freedom, a fever you suffered through" IE fighting for the south's independance. And when he returns home (or dies and sees his home from death) he finds it was destroyed during the war. He talks of the shift in his own faith, using the transfer of the Jesus line; talks of the eventual loss of the war with the freedom line. I love how it transfers the usual "The south will rise again" to a peaceful and more potent resulotion when he says "and the guitar rose again." Absolutey spectacular song- just as every other one by Iron and Wine.