this song brings home literally the heartache of love as a sadness of belonging and family "cow-call and they were all calling together/describing the way to go" and eventaully it's loss. Will begins this song with the intention of establishing us the person that experiences human love and heartache as being similar to the animals with strong familial, emotional communal bonds. As he does the next lines bring the sense of intimacy from the song that always presents itself in a very genuine and insightful song.
The blathering of others is a disgust to the songwriter in the second stanza and we identify with the strong feelings of destruction, renewal and longing: "shut their mouths, shut their mouths/and rip the pictures down/withdraw, withdraw, you live so far from town". Will seems to be tearing himself away from an impossible love.
"Their voices are bringing trees to their knees" is an exquisite line of songwriting and poetry and it is echoed in the song with the beautiful smooth buttery and high voice of the female vocalist.
Finally at the end, "the choir, choir, the voices go higher", the lovelorn surrenders himself to the beauty and freedom of religious expression and he is overtaken as is this listener when listening to the final stanza in a well beautifully and insightfully written song. This song moves from conciously and endearingly likening ourselves to cattle and then concludes with the lofted spirit taking flight with the voices of the choir. I love this song!
this song brings home literally the heartache of love as a sadness of belonging and family "cow-call and they were all calling together/describing the way to go" and eventaully it's loss. Will begins this song with the intention of establishing us the person that experiences human love and heartache as being similar to the animals with strong familial, emotional communal bonds. As he does the next lines bring the sense of intimacy from the song that always presents itself in a very genuine and insightful song. The blathering of others is a disgust to the songwriter in the second stanza and we identify with the strong feelings of destruction, renewal and longing: "shut their mouths, shut their mouths/and rip the pictures down/withdraw, withdraw, you live so far from town". Will seems to be tearing himself away from an impossible love. "Their voices are bringing trees to their knees" is an exquisite line of songwriting and poetry and it is echoed in the song with the beautiful smooth buttery and high voice of the female vocalist. Finally at the end, "the choir, choir, the voices go higher", the lovelorn surrenders himself to the beauty and freedom of religious expression and he is overtaken as is this listener when listening to the final stanza in a well beautifully and insightfully written song. This song moves from conciously and endearingly likening ourselves to cattle and then concludes with the lofted spirit taking flight with the voices of the choir. I love this song!