People use the word "sad" a lot when referring to this song but I see it as one of the most realistic songs he's ever written.
He used his imagination and put himself in the shoes of this woman who he said had all these letters from her beloved husband, a soldier of WWII, and just the agony and pain she went through when she lost him fighting for his country. What she went through and what she felt... How it happened...
"...there were bottles of pills...to keep her from the oncoming storm." - how more real can you possibly get. Such a powerful line. "Oncoming storm" is yet another classic description of exactly what this woman was headed towards time and time and time again. Over and over and over repeatedly.
This is a song when he got done writing it, I can see him saying, "yessssssss."
Out of the countless number of songs Ryan has written or been a part of, this is in my Top 3. It's short, sweet, and above all - powerful.
People use the word "sad" a lot when referring to this song but I see it as one of the most realistic songs he's ever written.
He used his imagination and put himself in the shoes of this woman who he said had all these letters from her beloved husband, a soldier of WWII, and just the agony and pain she went through when she lost him fighting for his country. What she went through and what she felt... How it happened...
"...there were bottles of pills...to keep her from the oncoming storm." - how more real can you possibly get. Such a powerful line. "Oncoming storm" is yet another classic description of exactly what this woman was headed towards time and time and time again. Over and over and over repeatedly.
This is a song when he got done writing it, I can see him saying, "yessssssss."
Out of the countless number of songs Ryan has written or been a part of, this is in my Top 3. It's short, sweet, and above all - powerful.
Here's a cover I did of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOg9ttzNik