The world is coming to an end, and you're stuck in a shitty hotel room in the middle of Missouri.
The song is full of references to T.S. Eliot, most notably "The Four Quartets" and "The Dry Salvages," but also "The Four Quartets." Lee Bozeman claims that the last stanza is a reference to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, but the lyric seems to have been written before John Paul II died.
The world is coming to an end, and you're stuck in a shitty hotel room in the middle of Missouri.
The song is full of references to T.S. Eliot, most notably "The Four Quartets" and "The Dry Salvages," but also "The Four Quartets." Lee Bozeman claims that the last stanza is a reference to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, but the lyric seems to have been written before John Paul II died.