'Tarrilip Bridge' is song about a woman infatuated with the "tv movie" of herself being made... this song however, reflects (in my mind) novelization. I think it definitely reflects what David McComb was reading at the time he was writing the album.
It reminds me of youth, young love, and at the same time eschews in on death. It reminds me of my favorite book, 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter', by Carson McCullers. There is a scene where a young pair of teenagers have sex next to a riverbank, and immediately afterwards, both feel this overwhelming sense of remorse, and he runs away from home to begin a life of honest work.
Meanwhile, the girl just stays behind, moves on as she tries to cope with the many other problems in her life. McCullers always wrote about social pariahs, but when I first read the book, I believed it was written in the mid 1960s. It was an astonishing revelation that it was in fact published in 1940, and written in the few years prior, when McCullers herself was just leaving the teen years behind.
Anyway, the whole "estuary bed" makes me think back to the two young lovers entering that forbbiden new world in the novel, hence the McComb-channeling-McCullers reference. I may be off, but it's what the song means to me.
'Tarrilip Bridge' is song about a woman infatuated with the "tv movie" of herself being made... this song however, reflects (in my mind) novelization. I think it definitely reflects what David McComb was reading at the time he was writing the album.
It reminds me of youth, young love, and at the same time eschews in on death. It reminds me of my favorite book, 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter', by Carson McCullers. There is a scene where a young pair of teenagers have sex next to a riverbank, and immediately afterwards, both feel this overwhelming sense of remorse, and he runs away from home to begin a life of honest work.
Meanwhile, the girl just stays behind, moves on as she tries to cope with the many other problems in her life. McCullers always wrote about social pariahs, but when I first read the book, I believed it was written in the mid 1960s. It was an astonishing revelation that it was in fact published in 1940, and written in the few years prior, when McCullers herself was just leaving the teen years behind.
Anyway, the whole "estuary bed" makes me think back to the two young lovers entering that forbbiden new world in the novel, hence the McComb-channeling-McCullers reference. I may be off, but it's what the song means to me.