@Raymiles – I think it needs to be analysed a bit more than that. My understanding is that the narrator wishes somebody else to go to hell by committing suicide.
@Raymiles – I think it needs to be analysed a bit more than that. My understanding is that the narrator wishes somebody else to go to hell by committing suicide.
The question is: Why is it called "Cowboy Song"? Is the person described in the song a cowboy?
The question is: Why is it called "Cowboy Song"? Is the person described in the song a cowboy?
My understanding is that the narrator had a bad encounter with a person who resembles her or his idea of a "cowboy". Maybe they had an argument or fight about the free-thinking spirit of the (proably very young*) narrator who feels intimidated by the "cowboy". Therefore the narrator fantasized that the...
My understanding is that the narrator had a bad encounter with a person who resembles her or his idea of a "cowboy". Maybe they had an argument or fight about the free-thinking spirit of the (proably very young*) narrator who feels intimidated by the "cowboy". Therefore the narrator fantasized that the "cowboy" realizes what a bully he is and then (the "cowboy") decides to jump of the roof of a skyscraper.
Assuming that the lyrics are written by Patton, he must have been 19 or 20 when he wrote the song. There is a demo of this song with these lyrics from 1988 on YT.
I think maybe, for once, this song doesn't need to be overanalysed. Suicide song.
@Raymiles – I think it needs to be analysed a bit more than that. My understanding is that the narrator wishes somebody else to go to hell by committing suicide.
@Raymiles – I think it needs to be analysed a bit more than that. My understanding is that the narrator wishes somebody else to go to hell by committing suicide.
The question is: Why is it called "Cowboy Song"? Is the person described in the song a cowboy?
The question is: Why is it called "Cowboy Song"? Is the person described in the song a cowboy?
My understanding is that the narrator had a bad encounter with a person who resembles her or his idea of a "cowboy". Maybe they had an argument or fight about the free-thinking spirit of the (proably very young*) narrator who feels intimidated by the "cowboy". Therefore the narrator fantasized that the...
My understanding is that the narrator had a bad encounter with a person who resembles her or his idea of a "cowboy". Maybe they had an argument or fight about the free-thinking spirit of the (proably very young*) narrator who feels intimidated by the "cowboy". Therefore the narrator fantasized that the "cowboy" realizes what a bully he is and then (the "cowboy") decides to jump of the roof of a skyscraper.
Assuming that the lyrics are written by Patton, he must have been 19 or 20 when he wrote the song. There is a demo of this song with these lyrics from 1988 on YT.