Baraga Embankment?
Maybe they're talking about how the town was so protective of their town of outside influence(a veritable cultural embankment) that they isolated themselves...
The kids of the town became restless, to the point of ignoring warnings from the town: "you're pulling trains to Oakland in the pouring rain well every drop will count when they tally it up and you always learned a lot from the deep end of faith."
Their restlessness became to much and they threw themselves off "the deep end of faith" hoping they'd find something more outside ("pulling trains to Oakland") of their protective little town.
"talk around the town is you've been listening you cover it up just as fast as you can cause you're trying to keep it from growing and getting big" He tried to stop himself from wondering what could possibly be out there beyond this... "And they will all be heirs to their own thrones and old homes without a downtown to grow old in or a son to telephone." Without their kids, the xenophobic elders will rot in their own "thrones" lonely and sad... No one wants this for their parents so "you worry yourself sick."
In the song Heard Iron Bug, "They're Coming to Town" there's a line "and you worry yourself sick, in a town that doesn't give a shit"... They're probably expanding on this theme...
It's not that complicated once you get around all the metaphors and shit. :D
Baraga is a town in Michigan...
Baraga Embankment? Maybe they're talking about how the town was so protective of their town of outside influence(a veritable cultural embankment) that they isolated themselves... The kids of the town became restless, to the point of ignoring warnings from the town: "you're pulling trains to Oakland in the pouring rain well every drop will count when they tally it up and you always learned a lot from the deep end of faith." Their restlessness became to much and they threw themselves off "the deep end of faith" hoping they'd find something more outside ("pulling trains to Oakland") of their protective little town.
"talk around the town is you've been listening you cover it up just as fast as you can cause you're trying to keep it from growing and getting big" He tried to stop himself from wondering what could possibly be out there beyond this... "And they will all be heirs to their own thrones and old homes without a downtown to grow old in or a son to telephone." Without their kids, the xenophobic elders will rot in their own "thrones" lonely and sad... No one wants this for their parents so "you worry yourself sick."
In the song Heard Iron Bug, "They're Coming to Town" there's a line "and you worry yourself sick, in a town that doesn't give a shit"... They're probably expanding on this theme...
It's not that complicated once you get around all the metaphors and shit. :D