This song is about moonshine. The place is called copperline because of a moonshine still (copper kettels sitting side by each). His daddy was dancing because he was drunk. His first "kiss" was his first drink of moonshine and afterwards being all drunk and the feeling of euphoria that it brought him. When he finally comes to he has a hangover and tries to go back home "tore up, tore up good". I love this song. Try taking a drink everytime he says copperline! You shall be tore up too!
The song is about his childhood and his attempt to return. It is not uni-dimensional, such as just about drinking. He played in the creek, has his first REAL kiss there, and has find memories of the place. But when he returned (as if I could) he found much of it had been built up: ("all spec house and plywood") sounds like a subdivision came and built on his boyhood playgrounds and the developers put up houses built without buyers on speculation "spec houses." Plywood refers to the flimsy nature of the homes that took away some...
The song is about his childhood and his attempt to return. It is not uni-dimensional, such as just about drinking. He played in the creek, has his first REAL kiss there, and has find memories of the place. But when he returned (as if I could) he found much of it had been built up: ("all spec house and plywood") sounds like a subdivision came and built on his boyhood playgrounds and the developers put up houses built without buyers on speculation "spec houses." Plywood refers to the flimsy nature of the homes that took away some of the natural setting he loved as a kid. But in the end, it still lives on in his memory. Even though he is sad that nothing is the same, he is "lifting up and rising free" with the happiness he still remembers from the good old days.
This song is about moonshine. The place is called copperline because of a moonshine still (copper kettels sitting side by each). His daddy was dancing because he was drunk. His first "kiss" was his first drink of moonshine and afterwards being all drunk and the feeling of euphoria that it brought him. When he finally comes to he has a hangover and tries to go back home "tore up, tore up good". I love this song. Try taking a drink everytime he says copperline! You shall be tore up too!
The song is about his childhood and his attempt to return. It is not uni-dimensional, such as just about drinking. He played in the creek, has his first REAL kiss there, and has find memories of the place. But when he returned (as if I could) he found much of it had been built up: ("all spec house and plywood") sounds like a subdivision came and built on his boyhood playgrounds and the developers put up houses built without buyers on speculation "spec houses." Plywood refers to the flimsy nature of the homes that took away some...
The song is about his childhood and his attempt to return. It is not uni-dimensional, such as just about drinking. He played in the creek, has his first REAL kiss there, and has find memories of the place. But when he returned (as if I could) he found much of it had been built up: ("all spec house and plywood") sounds like a subdivision came and built on his boyhood playgrounds and the developers put up houses built without buyers on speculation "spec houses." Plywood refers to the flimsy nature of the homes that took away some of the natural setting he loved as a kid. But in the end, it still lives on in his memory. Even though he is sad that nothing is the same, he is "lifting up and rising free" with the happiness he still remembers from the good old days.