In the late 60s and early 70s people like Jackson Brown did a lot of footloose traveling. People were also deeply uneasy with the state of the US government and the crass material economy. This seems to me a song, maybe autobiographical, of a man that went to Mexico, came across a young woman in a village, where yes, they still drew water from a well. He fantasized of staying with her and making his life there. But after some period of time, a week, a month, he realizes that he must go home and deal with the US society as well as he can.
In the late 60s and early 70s people like Jackson Brown did a lot of footloose traveling. People were also deeply uneasy with the state of the US government and the crass material economy. This seems to me a song, maybe autobiographical, of a man that went to Mexico, came across a young woman in a village, where yes, they still drew water from a well. He fantasized of staying with her and making his life there. But after some period of time, a week, a month, he realizes that he must go home and deal with the US society as well as he can.