@daveandqin, it's definitely a Knopfler song (Sailing to Philadelphia was released in 2000 where as Rogers covered it in 2003).
As for the meaning... this is definitely the song I'm going to be playing at my wedding.
Me and my girlfriend met each other over facebook for the first time. Not with the intention of getting a girlfriend that way, but as things happen, we got to know each other and grew as friends, and eventually after three months we started dating (me living in Australia and her living in South Africa). We were dating for 6months before I saw her in person for the first time....
I find it hard to describe it better than "I couldn't think of what I should say, but when Adam saw Eve in the garden, I believe he felt the self same way".... I KNEW that first moment she was MADE for me!!
We've been going out for two and a half years now, and I'm planning on asking for her hand in marriage as soon as possible.
Anyways, my story aside, I think this song is about a man living in the old west of America, where quite often cowboys and ranchers would live a days journey at least from the nearest town(drove up to the home trail), and often live in isolation(I know it ain't much, it needs a woman's touch). He might have met this girl on his travels as he drove cattle, and started writing her (only knew each other by letter), till she moved to be with him. He asks her if he is what she hoped he would be, as he already knew from the first moment he saw her that she was the Eve to his Adam. He wants to spend his life with her, loving her. And for as long as he lives, he'll never be able to believe that she chose him (I say do you really love me Mary, I hold her and I whisper her name).
Well that's my interpretation. Sorry for the long winded message but I created an account SPECIFICALLY to write this haha!! Truly a song that will always be dear to my heart.
@jogrobler I love this song too. We had it on repeat in the car as we drove from England to Spain to live there. (We´re still here!)
It makes me thing of the days when men were men and women were women and each knew their role and knew that they needed each other. I feel that modern idealogy has destroyed that relationship.
@jogrobler I love this song too. We had it on repeat in the car as we drove from England to Spain to live there. (We´re still here!)
It makes me thing of the days when men were men and women were women and each knew their role and knew that they needed each other. I feel that modern idealogy has destroyed that relationship.
@daveandqin, it's definitely a Knopfler song (Sailing to Philadelphia was released in 2000 where as Rogers covered it in 2003).
As for the meaning... this is definitely the song I'm going to be playing at my wedding.
Me and my girlfriend met each other over facebook for the first time. Not with the intention of getting a girlfriend that way, but as things happen, we got to know each other and grew as friends, and eventually after three months we started dating (me living in Australia and her living in South Africa). We were dating for 6months before I saw her in person for the first time....
I find it hard to describe it better than "I couldn't think of what I should say, but when Adam saw Eve in the garden, I believe he felt the self same way".... I KNEW that first moment she was MADE for me!!
We've been going out for two and a half years now, and I'm planning on asking for her hand in marriage as soon as possible.
Anyways, my story aside, I think this song is about a man living in the old west of America, where quite often cowboys and ranchers would live a days journey at least from the nearest town(drove up to the home trail), and often live in isolation(I know it ain't much, it needs a woman's touch). He might have met this girl on his travels as he drove cattle, and started writing her (only knew each other by letter), till she moved to be with him. He asks her if he is what she hoped he would be, as he already knew from the first moment he saw her that she was the Eve to his Adam. He wants to spend his life with her, loving her. And for as long as he lives, he'll never be able to believe that she chose him (I say do you really love me Mary, I hold her and I whisper her name).
Well that's my interpretation. Sorry for the long winded message but I created an account SPECIFICALLY to write this haha!! Truly a song that will always be dear to my heart.
@jogrobler - I agree about the American Old West setting. Theirs may have been an arranged marriage, or perhaps she was a mail order bride.
@jogrobler - I agree about the American Old West setting. Theirs may have been an arranged marriage, or perhaps she was a mail order bride.
@jogrobler I love this song too. We had it on repeat in the car as we drove from England to Spain to live there. (We´re still here!) It makes me thing of the days when men were men and women were women and each knew their role and knew that they needed each other. I feel that modern idealogy has destroyed that relationship.
@jogrobler I love this song too. We had it on repeat in the car as we drove from England to Spain to live there. (We´re still here!) It makes me thing of the days when men were men and women were women and each knew their role and knew that they needed each other. I feel that modern idealogy has destroyed that relationship.