it's amazing how ryan adams can incorporate imagery into his lyrics that's mostly used in very cliché ways by other artists - things like the moon, the stars, blabla.. - and actually, by means of a couple of subtle lingual twists, make it all feel really deep and urgent and moving (what adds to this fact too is of course his usual wonderful singing - even though i prefer his voice as heard on faithless street, rock n roll and love is hell). anyway, this greatness is perhaps only matched by the song's masterful musical buildup and the wondrous timbres it fills my ears with hehe. as for the meaning, it seems simple: pondering on and longing back for a past love - either suddenly struck by the memory, or never really having been able to let go of it. probably a mix of both. ;)
it's amazing how ryan adams can incorporate imagery into his lyrics that's mostly used in very cliché ways by other artists - things like the moon, the stars, blabla.. - and actually, by means of a couple of subtle lingual twists, make it all feel really deep and urgent and moving (what adds to this fact too is of course his usual wonderful singing - even though i prefer his voice as heard on faithless street, rock n roll and love is hell). anyway, this greatness is perhaps only matched by the song's masterful musical buildup and the wondrous timbres it fills my ears with hehe. as for the meaning, it seems simple: pondering on and longing back for a past love - either suddenly struck by the memory, or never really having been able to let go of it. probably a mix of both. ;)