This is yet another example of Paul's fantastic melody failing to become historically legendary by stale and/or lazy lyric writing. Throughout his solo career he has annoyed many with his penchant for doing this time and time again.
'Despite too easy ride to see' (??? - not 'right' as this forum suggests. Even then it is still nonsense.)
If you are lucky enough to study any of Paul's demos you will find that he frequently uses stream of consciousness words to fill out his melody and maintain the melodic cadence. It's a perfectly good song writing tactic. In Paul's case he frequently fails to hammer together better lyrics later when it comes time to seriously record - as in this case, I imagine.
It could be about Linda. Losing Linda was real bad blow for the lad. They were an unusually close couple and he could have populated his post-Linda songs with dripping mourning. Maybe he avoids doing this by not digging deep within himself because the anguish would be too great and, perhaps, indulgent. Frankly, I would have preferred that instead of the vacuous lack of real emotion we received when we put down our cash to purchase 'Driving Rain'. (Also note his apparent overuse of the word 'again' in this collection to fill out a lyric line.) On the other hand, it could be about anyone. Unfortunately the words end up not being as generic and meaningful as one would like in order to qualify for the remake market. This is too bad because the melody is certainly worthy of more airplay.
This is yet another example of Paul's fantastic melody failing to become historically legendary by stale and/or lazy lyric writing. Throughout his solo career he has annoyed many with his penchant for doing this time and time again.
'Despite too easy ride to see' (??? - not 'right' as this forum suggests. Even then it is still nonsense.)
If you are lucky enough to study any of Paul's demos you will find that he frequently uses stream of consciousness words to fill out his melody and maintain the melodic cadence. It's a perfectly good song writing tactic. In Paul's case he frequently fails to hammer together better lyrics later when it comes time to seriously record - as in this case, I imagine.
It could be about Linda. Losing Linda was real bad blow for the lad. They were an unusually close couple and he could have populated his post-Linda songs with dripping mourning. Maybe he avoids doing this by not digging deep within himself because the anguish would be too great and, perhaps, indulgent. Frankly, I would have preferred that instead of the vacuous lack of real emotion we received when we put down our cash to purchase 'Driving Rain'. (Also note his apparent overuse of the word 'again' in this collection to fill out a lyric line.) On the other hand, it could be about anyone. Unfortunately the words end up not being as generic and meaningful as one would like in order to qualify for the remake market. This is too bad because the melody is certainly worthy of more airplay.