Shawn Harris, who comes from a Catholic family and who attended Bishop O'Dowd High School, is certainly referring to a church fresco with many of these lines.
Most obviously
"What a ceiling
All the angels cracked and peeling
Revealing constellations"
And possibly even the first and titular line "clouds crash in the meadow".
Historically there has been an interest in astronomy within the Roman Catholic church, in particular among Popes Pius IV and Gregory XIII. Thus, along with angels, constellations and star charts are not uncommon in Catholic murals.
Terrestrial maps can also be seen in many catholic frescoes, especially of Italy, which is depicted as a peninsula of rolling hills among a wavy blue sea laden with ships, easily calling to mind the words crashing and sailing. Google image search "Galleria delle Carte Geografica", an enormous fresco in one of the Vatican's halls, to get an idea.
The word "soul" shows further religious influence as does the meadow and shadow metaphor (23rd Psalm).
The person this song is sung to is obviously a girlfriend, the line "in my linen, you are skin again" would seem to indicate that they've had sexual relations, and the fact that both are familiar with the same church fresco points to them growing up together and attending the same institutions.
This unidentified female had a huge crush on a boy in her younger years, but was afraid to give him any of the love notes she wrote. She kept the love notes, at some point the song writer found out about the notes' existence, either on his own or through her telling him about them. Perhaps this is what caused him to write the song, expressing to her "forget about all your past relationships, look forward to the future with me."
The song also speaks of how time speeds up as we get older. Overall the song is somewhat stream-of-consciousness and slightly melancholy. It is a personal song with the feelings and imagery describing specific things from the writers life and his past, as such we can never gain a true and complete understanding of the meaning without consulting the writer, we can only surmise the generalities.
Shawn Harris, who comes from a Catholic family and who attended Bishop O'Dowd High School, is certainly referring to a church fresco with many of these lines.
Most obviously
"What a ceiling All the angels cracked and peeling Revealing constellations"
And possibly even the first and titular line "clouds crash in the meadow".
Historically there has been an interest in astronomy within the Roman Catholic church, in particular among Popes Pius IV and Gregory XIII. Thus, along with angels, constellations and star charts are not uncommon in Catholic murals.
Terrestrial maps can also be seen in many catholic frescoes, especially of Italy, which is depicted as a peninsula of rolling hills among a wavy blue sea laden with ships, easily calling to mind the words crashing and sailing. Google image search "Galleria delle Carte Geografica", an enormous fresco in one of the Vatican's halls, to get an idea.
The word "soul" shows further religious influence as does the meadow and shadow metaphor (23rd Psalm).
The person this song is sung to is obviously a girlfriend, the line "in my linen, you are skin again" would seem to indicate that they've had sexual relations, and the fact that both are familiar with the same church fresco points to them growing up together and attending the same institutions.
This unidentified female had a huge crush on a boy in her younger years, but was afraid to give him any of the love notes she wrote. She kept the love notes, at some point the song writer found out about the notes' existence, either on his own or through her telling him about them. Perhaps this is what caused him to write the song, expressing to her "forget about all your past relationships, look forward to the future with me."
The song also speaks of how time speeds up as we get older. Overall the song is somewhat stream-of-consciousness and slightly melancholy. It is a personal song with the feelings and imagery describing specific things from the writers life and his past, as such we can never gain a true and complete understanding of the meaning without consulting the writer, we can only surmise the generalities.