Very nice, Jughead. This is much the same meaning I got from it as well. I see the title came from the painting to which LeadReporter refers, but mostly I get the sense it's about an old grandpa in the flat upstairs. Nice song.
Very nice, Jughead. This is much the same meaning I got from it as well. I see the title came from the painting to which LeadReporter refers, but mostly I get the sense it's about an old grandpa in the flat upstairs. Nice song.
Here's what I see. Someone lying in bed waiting to die.
His children come cook for him and bring him food.
"Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food Maybe open up a window for air"
The morphine pump.
"Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take"
He's being fed through an IV bottle
"Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed My hat's off to you, to you and you"
The spirits are here wanting to take him away
"And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do"
He's ready to go
"Oh, just like, just like home Where the stray dogs go Oh, oh, rest my bones Like a fresh skipped stone to it all"
But his time did not come yet...he is still there
"Still right here, still just here, Still just here, brave, brave friend"
Very nice, Jughead. This is much the same meaning I got from it as well. I see the title came from the painting to which LeadReporter refers, but mostly I get the sense it's about an old grandpa in the flat upstairs. Nice song.
Very nice, Jughead. This is much the same meaning I got from it as well. I see the title came from the painting to which LeadReporter refers, but mostly I get the sense it's about an old grandpa in the flat upstairs. Nice song.