I think he uses the story of Joseph as a parody for a girl he knew who left (though possibly not too far "through the land I own") and found success in what sounds as though it's a stage or performance career "You're on in five...the lights are down...they've paid").
It sound as though he wishes he'd expressed what he found special about her and he thinks it's a shame that she's hiding parts of her that make herself and he can't understand why. (What would you hide from such a glory? If I had only told you so).
The duality of the word glory also is almost cutting in its delivery. The glory she's gained (praise and adoration) is covering her own glory (i.e splendour). Really lovely sentence.
A slight bitterness as well in the delivery of "You're the face in stone" metaphorically they've built a statue of her, she's been immortalised but symbolically she's betrayed her loved ones and been set in stone (Lot's wife) or maybe she is incapable of being herself anymore because a statue is created through the eyes of the beholder rather than through any part of it's own doing.
I might be way off if there is indeed an on but that's what I took from it. Such a gorgeous song and so sad "You never found it home" seems to hint at a disappointment in her for not returning (or staying both in person and in character) and him for playing no part in trying to keep her.
So much you could take this song before and so beautifully composed.
I think he uses the story of Joseph as a parody for a girl he knew who left (though possibly not too far "through the land I own") and found success in what sounds as though it's a stage or performance career "You're on in five...the lights are down...they've paid").
It sound as though he wishes he'd expressed what he found special about her and he thinks it's a shame that she's hiding parts of her that make herself and he can't understand why. (What would you hide from such a glory? If I had only told you so).
The duality of the word glory also is almost cutting in its delivery. The glory she's gained (praise and adoration) is covering her own glory (i.e splendour). Really lovely sentence.
A slight bitterness as well in the delivery of "You're the face in stone" metaphorically they've built a statue of her, she's been immortalised but symbolically she's betrayed her loved ones and been set in stone (Lot's wife) or maybe she is incapable of being herself anymore because a statue is created through the eyes of the beholder rather than through any part of it's own doing.
I might be way off if there is indeed an on but that's what I took from it. Such a gorgeous song and so sad "You never found it home" seems to hint at a disappointment in her for not returning (or staying both in person and in character) and him for playing no part in trying to keep her.
So much you could take this song before and so beautifully composed.