I think this song is about a dysfunctional relationship and the things we do to hurt each other. He moves on to say he just wants to toss the past(suitcase) into the wind so they can start fresh and remember to believe. The last lines are pretty vague but I think in the end he had something taken from him. Like the rest of this album this song is very haunting. Not sure how correct the lyrics are, please offer corrections if you have them.
@spitty12
I'll agree with you on your relationship theory. Seems as though he's written this song from the recollection of a haunting lover, and performs it in such a fashion that it's almost an offering towards absolution, somehow trying to recover "things we're all destined to lose*". With the exasperated inflection on "throwing this suitcase to the wind at last" it's safe to say he's really looking to be free of the bittersweet memories and feelings that that lover branded into him. I'd like to assume he's the "music man singing mystery songs".
Corrections.
"Poems go flying in the drafts?"
"All we ever had...
@spitty12
I'll agree with you on your relationship theory. Seems as though he's written this song from the recollection of a haunting lover, and performs it in such a fashion that it's almost an offering towards absolution, somehow trying to recover "things we're all destined to lose*". With the exasperated inflection on "throwing this suitcase to the wind at last" it's safe to say he's really looking to be free of the bittersweet memories and feelings that that lover branded into him. I'd like to assume he's the "music man singing mystery songs".
Corrections.
"Poems go flying in the drafts?"
"All we ever had left was a pile of flame/fame?"
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Obv coals can be mounded up to ignite and "old flame" -
"It's time like these we remember to bleed/believe?"
"Lay me down in your field" could be a request to go back to a previous time when that lost lover had something soothing for him; When it was still pure, but when dealing with a "crooked muse", it's possible to fall victim to a plot unbeknownst to those with honest intentions versus those that use love as a stepping stone or leverage point to attain they're own selfish desires. Given Isakov is fairly well known, it could be inferred that he got played, as it were.
I think this song is about a dysfunctional relationship and the things we do to hurt each other. He moves on to say he just wants to toss the past(suitcase) into the wind so they can start fresh and remember to believe. The last lines are pretty vague but I think in the end he had something taken from him. Like the rest of this album this song is very haunting. Not sure how correct the lyrics are, please offer corrections if you have them.
@spitty12 I'll agree with you on your relationship theory. Seems as though he's written this song from the recollection of a haunting lover, and performs it in such a fashion that it's almost an offering towards absolution, somehow trying to recover "things we're all destined to lose*". With the exasperated inflection on "throwing this suitcase to the wind at last" it's safe to say he's really looking to be free of the bittersweet memories and feelings that that lover branded into him. I'd like to assume he's the "music man singing mystery songs". Corrections. "Poems go flying in the drafts?" "All we ever had...
@spitty12 I'll agree with you on your relationship theory. Seems as though he's written this song from the recollection of a haunting lover, and performs it in such a fashion that it's almost an offering towards absolution, somehow trying to recover "things we're all destined to lose*". With the exasperated inflection on "throwing this suitcase to the wind at last" it's safe to say he's really looking to be free of the bittersweet memories and feelings that that lover branded into him. I'd like to assume he's the "music man singing mystery songs". Corrections.
"Poems go flying in the drafts?" "All we ever had left was a pile of flame/fame?"
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"Lay me down in your field" could be a request to go back to a previous time when that lost lover had something soothing for him; When it was still pure, but when dealing with a "crooked muse", it's possible to fall victim to a plot unbeknownst to those with honest intentions versus those that use love as a stepping stone or leverage point to attain they're own selfish desires. Given Isakov is fairly well known, it could be inferred that he got played, as it were.
@spitty12 Further correction:
@spitty12 Further correction:
Your mouth becomes a dictionary words without a home get leary lonely on their own on the page
Your mouth becomes a dictionary words without a home get leary lonely on their own on the page