Where do you get that problems washed away? It talks about how "it was upstream then and now", meaning the problems haven't left.
No, it's about Joe reflecting about the time he spent with his father when he was a child... before his dad passed away.
I walked in my father's wake
I prayed for a god to take
the endlessness from those shores
and he held my hand
and I still hold his name
and my childhood born
and the difference
I let the water wash away
Not all the songs Joe writes are personal, but this is a very personal song to Joe.
He kind of hates how time has to pass and erode memories while taking those we love...
Those sacred trails
by the riverside left
(left by him and his father)
to these other souls
with no love and no hate
(people will walk on them and have no idea, they neither love or hate the memories Joe has left there)
they're bleeding the everything
they're soiling the brilliant green
and I'm drowning for the water's sake
Hopefully that makes some sense, it's a very deep song about capturing a moment (in this case time spent with his father that he can never spend again)
Where do you get that problems washed away? It talks about how "it was upstream then and now", meaning the problems haven't left.
No, it's about Joe reflecting about the time he spent with his father when he was a child... before his dad passed away.
I walked in my father's wake I prayed for a god to take the endlessness from those shores
and he held my hand and I still hold his name and my childhood born and the difference I let the water wash away
Not all the songs Joe writes are personal, but this is a very personal song to Joe.
He kind of hates how time has to pass and erode memories while taking those we love...
Those sacred trails by the riverside left (left by him and his father) to these other souls with no love and no hate (people will walk on them and have no idea, they neither love or hate the memories Joe has left there) they're bleeding the everything they're soiling the brilliant green and I'm drowning for the water's sake
Hopefully that makes some sense, it's a very deep song about capturing a moment (in this case time spent with his father that he can never spend again)