I'm pretty convinced all of Have One on Me is a breakup album about her and Bill Callahan. I think this is another song about being in love with a travelling man. She is so rooted to her home and she hates waiting for him come back ( something moving just out of range... I wait while I decry the wait) and she hates that the world seems like its set up for people to leave.
Building glowing cities along the shore
A swarming fleet is going to take you from me
To leave your home and your family
For some distortion of property
I believe she's talking about how property is supposed to be the land you live on and tend to and are tied to. The land you care for, and the person she's talking to just moves around not knowing any land, maybe buying it or squatting on it, but truly has no property because he has no roots.
I'm pretty convinced all of Have One on Me is a breakup album about her and Bill Callahan. I think this is another song about being in love with a travelling man. She is so rooted to her home and she hates waiting for him come back ( something moving just out of range... I wait while I decry the wait) and she hates that the world seems like its set up for people to leave.
Building glowing cities along the shore A swarming fleet is going to take you from me
To leave your home and your family For some distortion of property
I believe she's talking about how property is supposed to be the land you live on and tend to and are tied to. The land you care for, and the person she's talking to just moves around not knowing any land, maybe buying it or squatting on it, but truly has no property because he has no roots.
And she offers him a home with her.