oh WOW, love this song and intend to use it with my students to illustrate the use of allusion.
i think it's about a journey, maybe literal, maybe metaphorical, and the way that when you're travelling your mind wanders--the very real spiritual nature of journeying. the stanza "ones and zeroes" has a reference to the 'still small voice' which s what the king james bible says that god is--was it isiah? god is not in the earthquake or the hurricane or the fire, but in the still small voice -- which is what he (in the song) hears when he turns off the radio (bleedng mesa noise).
stations of the cross refers to the road to golgotha when jc carried teh cross up the hill a la the passion of the christ. the wire albatross also represents jc i think--via the rime of the ancient mariner. th river days i think references huckleberry finn. anyway great song.
oh WOW, love this song and intend to use it with my students to illustrate the use of allusion.
i think it's about a journey, maybe literal, maybe metaphorical, and the way that when you're travelling your mind wanders--the very real spiritual nature of journeying. the stanza "ones and zeroes" has a reference to the 'still small voice' which s what the king james bible says that god is--was it isiah? god is not in the earthquake or the hurricane or the fire, but in the still small voice -- which is what he (in the song) hears when he turns off the radio (bleedng mesa noise).
stations of the cross refers to the road to golgotha when jc carried teh cross up the hill a la the passion of the christ. the wire albatross also represents jc i think--via the rime of the ancient mariner. th river days i think references huckleberry finn. anyway great song.