P.S. I love how delicatly he writes about this subject, very subtle innuendo but never vulgar in the least.
"the harder the rain the lower the flowers in the garden bed"
She has been "rained on", deflowered, apparently very hard, that it has lowered her from God's grace, a flower weighed down so much by the "rain" that it perhaps can't even see the light of God anymore it is so low in the garden. It is proabbly this presence that is "the friend" she brought. Beautiful.
you make some great observations but I feel the true meaning of the song is far more simpler than that. During a live show I once saw Aaron said the song was about his parents. I understand Aaron may have several meanings to what he writes but I think he was really just thinking of his home life and growing up as a kid literally playing with animals around the house. If we are to make any more connections I'd say yes this song is about relationships in his life and the fact that he's had to...
you make some great observations but I feel the true meaning of the song is far more simpler than that. During a live show I once saw Aaron said the song was about his parents. I understand Aaron may have several meanings to what he writes but I think he was really just thinking of his home life and growing up as a kid literally playing with animals around the house. If we are to make any more connections I'd say yes this song is about relationships in his life and the fact that he's had to rely on God to help him with the failures in his life even way back when he tried to make friends with the tiny mouse. He scattered some oats in hope she'd stay but the scurried on her way and he hasn't forgot about that. The bit about the water on dry wood I think refers to his ambitions with women that sometimes we may lust so much like dry wood does for water that we make mistakes and things become misunderstood. However if there really was a fire he watched as a child or not I think the metaphor suggests that we ought to forget about our mistakes because God is so good that it doesn't matter what we've done. He tan refers to hearing the devil in his ear which in my opinion simply means he thinks the devil in this case is self-doubt. He's trying to say there's still a part of him that knows his imperfections and he doesn't want to become too self conscious about still being a virgin. You may be right with the connection between his ex girlfriend and the possible metaphor of the mouse but if we look at it literally in connection with what I've been able to see, I'd make the connection that he's trying to say that even if others in our life move on i.e. his ex girlfriend, than we can't keep crying about it, we have to recognize that it's a part of life and you'll run into sadness everywhere you go.
P.S. I love how delicatly he writes about this subject, very subtle innuendo but never vulgar in the least.
"the harder the rain the lower the flowers in the garden bed"
She has been "rained on", deflowered, apparently very hard, that it has lowered her from God's grace, a flower weighed down so much by the "rain" that it perhaps can't even see the light of God anymore it is so low in the garden. It is proabbly this presence that is "the friend" she brought. Beautiful.
you make some great observations but I feel the true meaning of the song is far more simpler than that. During a live show I once saw Aaron said the song was about his parents. I understand Aaron may have several meanings to what he writes but I think he was really just thinking of his home life and growing up as a kid literally playing with animals around the house. If we are to make any more connections I'd say yes this song is about relationships in his life and the fact that he's had to...
you make some great observations but I feel the true meaning of the song is far more simpler than that. During a live show I once saw Aaron said the song was about his parents. I understand Aaron may have several meanings to what he writes but I think he was really just thinking of his home life and growing up as a kid literally playing with animals around the house. If we are to make any more connections I'd say yes this song is about relationships in his life and the fact that he's had to rely on God to help him with the failures in his life even way back when he tried to make friends with the tiny mouse. He scattered some oats in hope she'd stay but the scurried on her way and he hasn't forgot about that. The bit about the water on dry wood I think refers to his ambitions with women that sometimes we may lust so much like dry wood does for water that we make mistakes and things become misunderstood. However if there really was a fire he watched as a child or not I think the metaphor suggests that we ought to forget about our mistakes because God is so good that it doesn't matter what we've done. He tan refers to hearing the devil in his ear which in my opinion simply means he thinks the devil in this case is self-doubt. He's trying to say there's still a part of him that knows his imperfections and he doesn't want to become too self conscious about still being a virgin. You may be right with the connection between his ex girlfriend and the possible metaphor of the mouse but if we look at it literally in connection with what I've been able to see, I'd make the connection that he's trying to say that even if others in our life move on i.e. his ex girlfriend, than we can't keep crying about it, we have to recognize that it's a part of life and you'll run into sadness everywhere you go.