This song is really only religious in the aspect that is simply mentions God. The comforting factor is in having a song with a feel to which you can relate.
This song is about a typical suicide scenario, in which nobody really saw it coming because nobody really knew how bad the person was feeling or how bad their life really was, or both. Or, it can be about someone dying after a very hard life with nobody who knows or understands, and thus finding relief in death.
"Oh Lordy, trouble so hard."
(Self-explanatory.)
"Don't nobody know my troubles but God."
(This is akin to sayings like 'God only knows.' When only God knows, it's a way of saying that nobody, or at least no other humans, know. This line explains that nobody knows the painful/stressful/etc things that the person is experiencing.)
"Went down the hill, other day. Soul got happy and stayed all day."
(This is the 'suicide' or 'death' scene. Going down the hill is akin to phrases like 'downhill from here/there, and is metaphorical to deciding to die or just simply dying. The person's soul stayed all day because, well, they died. Their soul stayed where it landed. And from the perspective of the person, it was a positive relief sort of feeling. Also, it is common than when a suicidal person makes the decision to end their life and plans it out, the day or so before they carry it out, they actually seem much happier and at peace.)
"Went in the room, didn't stay long. Looked on the bed and brother was dead."
(For the time period, 'brother' does not mean a literal male sibling, but rather it is simply referring to the character previously spoken in first-person throughout the song. Think of the song We Are Family and the line that goes something like 'got all my brothers and sisters with me.' This is the scene after the death in which the dead body is discovered. Another person enters the room and finds the dead body, but they don't stay long. This probably means that they don't give it much thought.)
Overall this is a nice song for relating and processing thoughts/emotions when you are going through some rough sh*t and nobody really knows the depth of it or understands it.
That's a compelling idea. It could be about suicide. There is a music video depicting an elderly, very disabled man in a nursing home. The lyrics definitely fit into the context of that scenario as well. I don't think it has to be suicide... I think it is probably any series of "hard troubles" that are ultimately the death of you.
That's a compelling idea. It could be about suicide. There is a music video depicting an elderly, very disabled man in a nursing home. The lyrics definitely fit into the context of that scenario as well. I don't think it has to be suicide... I think it is probably any series of "hard troubles" that are ultimately the death of you.
This song is really only religious in the aspect that is simply mentions God. The comforting factor is in having a song with a feel to which you can relate.
This song is about a typical suicide scenario, in which nobody really saw it coming because nobody really knew how bad the person was feeling or how bad their life really was, or both. Or, it can be about someone dying after a very hard life with nobody who knows or understands, and thus finding relief in death.
"Oh Lordy, trouble so hard." (Self-explanatory.)
"Don't nobody know my troubles but God." (This is akin to sayings like 'God only knows.' When only God knows, it's a way of saying that nobody, or at least no other humans, know. This line explains that nobody knows the painful/stressful/etc things that the person is experiencing.)
"Went down the hill, other day. Soul got happy and stayed all day." (This is the 'suicide' or 'death' scene. Going down the hill is akin to phrases like 'downhill from here/there, and is metaphorical to deciding to die or just simply dying. The person's soul stayed all day because, well, they died. Their soul stayed where it landed. And from the perspective of the person, it was a positive relief sort of feeling. Also, it is common than when a suicidal person makes the decision to end their life and plans it out, the day or so before they carry it out, they actually seem much happier and at peace.)
"Went in the room, didn't stay long. Looked on the bed and brother was dead." (For the time period, 'brother' does not mean a literal male sibling, but rather it is simply referring to the character previously spoken in first-person throughout the song. Think of the song We Are Family and the line that goes something like 'got all my brothers and sisters with me.' This is the scene after the death in which the dead body is discovered. Another person enters the room and finds the dead body, but they don't stay long. This probably means that they don't give it much thought.)
Overall this is a nice song for relating and processing thoughts/emotions when you are going through some rough sh*t and nobody really knows the depth of it or understands it.
That's a compelling idea. It could be about suicide. There is a music video depicting an elderly, very disabled man in a nursing home. The lyrics definitely fit into the context of that scenario as well. I don't think it has to be suicide... I think it is probably any series of "hard troubles" that are ultimately the death of you.
That's a compelling idea. It could be about suicide. There is a music video depicting an elderly, very disabled man in a nursing home. The lyrics definitely fit into the context of that scenario as well. I don't think it has to be suicide... I think it is probably any series of "hard troubles" that are ultimately the death of you.