no comments here, I was surprised - this was a
song that's haunted me for a long time - it tells
of the Old Man looking back on his life, and what's
left for him - all loneliness and retrospection - but
what's really haunting was the Vietnam era reference
of a letter saying "your son will not be coming home" -
I thought, how amazing and sordid would that be, getting
the news of the death by mail
no comments here, I was surprised - this was a song that's haunted me for a long time - it tells of the Old Man looking back on his life, and what's left for him - all loneliness and retrospection - but what's really haunting was the Vietnam era reference of a letter saying "your son will not be coming home" - I thought, how amazing and sordid would that be, getting the news of the death by mail
@rockboy52 there is no reference to Vietnam. It can be any war. and there have ALWAYS been Western unions to alert the family to deaths or MIAs
@rockboy52 there is no reference to Vietnam. It can be any war. and there have ALWAYS been Western unions to alert the family to deaths or MIAs