Usually I cringe when people say, "This song is about abortion!" because a lot of people think all songs are about one of three things - love, drugs, or abortion.
In this case, though, I do think these lyrics could - potentially, at least - lean towards the abortion angle.
"Waking before you/I've got a fever and a childish wish for snow/Seems like a long, long time/Since I spun you to this borrowed radio" Waking up, as if to find reality was just a dream, and the abandoned dream is reality - like how it can seem when in the grip of a high fever, delirious with it. Childish wish for snow symbolizes the innocence of the lost child, and the line about spinning 'you' to the borrowed radio symbolizes The Same Old Song... like saying, It's been a long time since you became the same old heartache for me.
"You pick a place that's where I'll be/Time like your cheek has turned for me" Instead of making the choice for the unborn, this time the choice is given to it. A wistful fantasy that the unborn could somehow give it's could-have-been parent(s) a second chance to decide by turning the other cheek, along with time.
"Someday the waves will stop/Every aching old machine will feel no pain/Someday we both will walk/Where a baby made tomorrow is a gain" Again, wishful thinking for an easy way out from the pain of such a difficult decision, from deciding that the child would have been a burden somehow.
"Waking before you/I'm like the lord who sees his love though we don't know-" Religious aspect: sometimes people blame god for bad things happening, saying it's because he doesn't love them or care about their suffering. This would be the parent looking at the aborted fetus, knowing how much they did love the thought of that child, but for whatever reason they could not explain to it, had to terminate the pregnancy.
"-Seems like a long, long time/Since I've been above you seen and loved you so" Reinstating the love he/she felt for unborn child, but was 'above,' or unable to express.
"You pick a place that's where I'll be
Time like your cheek has turned for me"
'course, I could be totally off my rocker, and it may have nothing at all to do with what Sam B. had in mind when penning these lyrics.
Usually I cringe when people say, "This song is about abortion!" because a lot of people think all songs are about one of three things - love, drugs, or abortion.
In this case, though, I do think these lyrics could - potentially, at least - lean towards the abortion angle.
"Waking before you/I've got a fever and a childish wish for snow/Seems like a long, long time/Since I spun you to this borrowed radio" Waking up, as if to find reality was just a dream, and the abandoned dream is reality - like how it can seem when in the grip of a high fever, delirious with it. Childish wish for snow symbolizes the innocence of the lost child, and the line about spinning 'you' to the borrowed radio symbolizes The Same Old Song... like saying, It's been a long time since you became the same old heartache for me.
"You pick a place that's where I'll be/Time like your cheek has turned for me" Instead of making the choice for the unborn, this time the choice is given to it. A wistful fantasy that the unborn could somehow give it's could-have-been parent(s) a second chance to decide by turning the other cheek, along with time.
"Someday the waves will stop/Every aching old machine will feel no pain/Someday we both will walk/Where a baby made tomorrow is a gain" Again, wishful thinking for an easy way out from the pain of such a difficult decision, from deciding that the child would have been a burden somehow.
"Waking before you/I'm like the lord who sees his love though we don't know-" Religious aspect: sometimes people blame god for bad things happening, saying it's because he doesn't love them or care about their suffering. This would be the parent looking at the aborted fetus, knowing how much they did love the thought of that child, but for whatever reason they could not explain to it, had to terminate the pregnancy.
"-Seems like a long, long time/Since I've been above you seen and loved you so" Reinstating the love he/she felt for unborn child, but was 'above,' or unable to express.
"You pick a place that's where I'll be Time like your cheek has turned for me"
'course, I could be totally off my rocker, and it may have nothing at all to do with what Sam B. had in mind when penning these lyrics.
Just my personal and heartfelt take on this song.