I can't find where I read this - I think it might have been in the stuff that came with the CD, which of course I lost a long time ago. But if memory serves, this song was written in a sort of lightning strike, stream of consciousness, channeling type event. That's how Townes (loosely) described it. He was just struck, all of a sudden, as if by some kind of 'lightning', grabbed a pen, and let the words run through his hands. He said he really didn't even know what he was writing until he was done and and looked it over. He altered it very little if at all.
I wouldn't go looking for meaning in the mundane, or the particulars of his life. This is something mythical. This is an encounter with the Crone, or something of the kind.
Townes had a link with a Muse. Calling him gifted is an understatement.
I can't find where I read this - I think it might have been in the stuff that came with the CD, which of course I lost a long time ago. But if memory serves, this song was written in a sort of lightning strike, stream of consciousness, channeling type event. That's how Townes (loosely) described it. He was just struck, all of a sudden, as if by some kind of 'lightning', grabbed a pen, and let the words run through his hands. He said he really didn't even know what he was writing until he was done and and looked it over. He altered it very little if at all.
I wouldn't go looking for meaning in the mundane, or the particulars of his life. This is something mythical. This is an encounter with the Crone, or something of the kind.
Townes had a link with a Muse. Calling him gifted is an understatement.