We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
-- A ream of paper is useless without a typewriter. A telephone is useless without a cord, which it likely doesn't have out in the middle of a cemetery.
A broken bow across a long lost violin
-- A broken bow isn't going to make any music on a violin that isn't even there.
Written word, spoken word, and music are all forms of communication. Sam has so poignantly expressed a complete inability to communicate here, despite the subject's desperate desire to bridge the gap between the living and the dead to be closer with his lost love.
I see this song as a story, and I personally don't care if the lover was the captain's wife, the captain's fiancee, or the subject's wife. It's beautiful. This song is simple yet cryptic and incredibly beautiful. One of the songs that drew me in to Iron & Wine.
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone A ream of paper and a telephone -- A ream of paper is useless without a typewriter. A telephone is useless without a cord, which it likely doesn't have out in the middle of a cemetery.
A broken bow across a long lost violin -- A broken bow isn't going to make any music on a violin that isn't even there.
Written word, spoken word, and music are all forms of communication. Sam has so poignantly expressed a complete inability to communicate here, despite the subject's desperate desire to bridge the gap between the living and the dead to be closer with his lost love.
I see this song as a story, and I personally don't care if the lover was the captain's wife, the captain's fiancee, or the subject's wife. It's beautiful. This song is simple yet cryptic and incredibly beautiful. One of the songs that drew me in to Iron & Wine.