I thoroughly enjoyed the new CD and this is my favourite song, so I'll bite on this one.
"I made a promise to not let go
Our tug of war has only made me want you more"
-I beleive this song is in the context of a difficult relationship. The writer is probably much more passionate about the girl than what she returns.
"Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam
My love is braver than you know"
-Basically saying he doesn't live an easy life and that the stubbornness that gets him through is also what holds him to her. This stubbornness seems to be an underlying theme in the song as the first 2 lines also demonstrate. I'll come back to this theme again later.
"Damn this valley
Damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It’s plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me will it grow"
Sounds like he's put the effort into the relationship but the ball is in her court and she seems undecided on whether the relationship will 'grow' or not.
"My forefathers they worked this land
And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature’s plans
Dressed in thunder a cloud came round
In the shape of a lion a hand came down"
"Dig my ditches in the golden sun
I’d be robbing these trains if I could catch me one
Sunday Monday now Tuesday’s gone
Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long
Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards
There’s a boy in a water tower counting cars
Steel traps open and empty stalls
There’s a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone"
"Jet black starlit midnight rolls
I am down in the garden where I let you go
Here on the surface the earth looks round
But it’s a Godless city of cold flat ground"
These verses really make the song, and I'm going to group them together because they're very similar and tie into eachother. They're full of imagery
and are very cleverly written metaphors relating the owner of a tough life reaching out for that one girl. It takes on a sort of "Olden Days" theme
through the eyes of a farmer the kind that breaks his back everyday but takes pride in it. The only thing that can really get to him is, of course,
her, and her missing presence seems to give him a colder view of the world.
I thoroughly enjoyed the new CD and this is my favourite song, so I'll bite on this one.
"I made a promise to not let go Our tug of war has only made me want you more"
-I beleive this song is in the context of a difficult relationship. The writer is probably much more passionate about the girl than what she returns.
"Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam My love is braver than you know"
-Basically saying he doesn't live an easy life and that the stubbornness that gets him through is also what holds him to her. This stubbornness seems to be an underlying theme in the song as the first 2 lines also demonstrate. I'll come back to this theme again later.
"Damn this valley Damn this cold Take so long to let me know It’s plant and reap and plow and sow But tell me will it grow"
Sounds like he's put the effort into the relationship but the ball is in her court and she seems undecided on whether the relationship will 'grow' or not.
"My forefathers they worked this land And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature’s plans Dressed in thunder a cloud came round In the shape of a lion a hand came down"
"Dig my ditches in the golden sun I’d be robbing these trains if I could catch me one Sunday Monday now Tuesday’s gone Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards There’s a boy in a water tower counting cars Steel traps open and empty stalls There’s a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone"
"Jet black starlit midnight rolls I am down in the garden where I let you go Here on the surface the earth looks round But it’s a Godless city of cold flat ground"
These verses really make the song, and I'm going to group them together because they're very similar and tie into eachother. They're full of imagery and are very cleverly written metaphors relating the owner of a tough life reaching out for that one girl. It takes on a sort of "Olden Days" theme through the eyes of a farmer the kind that breaks his back everyday but takes pride in it. The only thing that can really get to him is, of course, her, and her missing presence seems to give him a colder view of the world.