What a great road song. Brings back lots of memories of driving across the great Western US in the middle of the night... "I got Willie on the radio and a dozen things on my mind...." feeling alone, the loved on not being there when the trip is over, wondering why one is taking this trip (My life wasting on this road) Do the cities represent past and future relationships?(Atlanta's a distant memory, Montgomery's a recent birth...)or different parts of her life? There is suggestion of hope - that the current relationship in question might be salavagable (When I reach there, I'll turn bck, and you and I can begin again). The line that baffles me to no end is "Tulsa burns on the desert floor like a signal fire..." Do these Canadians fail at US geography - Tulsa is not on a desert floor- I've wondered if they didn't mean Tuscon burning on the desert floor- looking down on it from the surounding mountains. Or is it a metaphor- another potential relationships that could lead to another heartbreak?
What a great road song. Brings back lots of memories of driving across the great Western US in the middle of the night... "I got Willie on the radio and a dozen things on my mind...." feeling alone, the loved on not being there when the trip is over, wondering why one is taking this trip (My life wasting on this road) Do the cities represent past and future relationships?(Atlanta's a distant memory, Montgomery's a recent birth...)or different parts of her life? There is suggestion of hope - that the current relationship in question might be salavagable (When I reach there, I'll turn bck, and you and I can begin again). The line that baffles me to no end is "Tulsa burns on the desert floor like a signal fire..." Do these Canadians fail at US geography - Tulsa is not on a desert floor- I've wondered if they didn't mean Tuscon burning on the desert floor- looking down on it from the surounding mountains. Or is it a metaphor- another potential relationships that could lead to another heartbreak?