Aside from just being about native american use of alcohol, I think this song is applicable to any person who has let alcohol control their lives and felt the void it created in their life. It is really beautiful and heartfelt and a much needed voice in our culture where alcohol is so prevalent.
sort of like a grateful dead wharf rat type of song, but much more clear. wharf rat is a song where you have to know that it is about alcoholism prior to listening to understand it, it's a story of someone inside of alcoholism, and much more abstract. this an outsider looking at a culture or people abusing alcohol and commenting on how sad it is.
This is a really rare song and I think anyone would be hard pressed to find another song making a similar statement like Xavier rudd is here. That just makes this song even better.
And It seems clear the song is about alcohol to some extent.
'the drinking that has stole so many souls...
oh the bottle took away my son. what have we become?'
Aside from just being about native american use of alcohol, I think this song is applicable to any person who has let alcohol control their lives and felt the void it created in their life. It is really beautiful and heartfelt and a much needed voice in our culture where alcohol is so prevalent.
sort of like a grateful dead wharf rat type of song, but much more clear. wharf rat is a song where you have to know that it is about alcoholism prior to listening to understand it, it's a story of someone inside of alcoholism, and much more abstract. this an outsider looking at a culture or people abusing alcohol and commenting on how sad it is.
This is a really rare song and I think anyone would be hard pressed to find another song making a similar statement like Xavier rudd is here. That just makes this song even better.
And It seems clear the song is about alcohol to some extent.
'the drinking that has stole so many souls...
oh the bottle took away my son. what have we become?'