The fact of the matter is that is song is more blatantly about the earth/mother nature, though it could be used by Indio as a metaphor for a woman. First off I must correct some places where the lyrics are wrong. The second verse says "When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet, When I stay to pillage her, she just throws it back at me. The fourth verse says "Once I stood to lose here, and I saw what I had done, I burned down and threw away the hours, of her garden and here sun. So I tried to warn here, and turned to see her weep, Forty days and forty nights and it's still coming down on me."
The fact of the matter is that is song is more blatantly about the earth/mother nature, though it could be used by Indio as a metaphor for a woman. First off I must correct some places where the lyrics are wrong. The second verse says "When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet, When I stay to pillage her, she just throws it back at me. The fourth verse says "Once I stood to lose here, and I saw what I had done, I burned down and threw away the hours, of her garden and here sun. So I tried to warn here, and turned to see her weep, Forty days and forty nights and it's still coming down on me."