They went to find work "on the county line." As in, on the edge. And they live on the edge, picking up hookers, lying to them (their fathers own the World Trade Center). And Wayne never shows up for work.
The song ends with the narrator heading into Dixie (it's not real life geography, but the implication is that they were just on the edge of Dixie), seeing Wayne arrested as he leaves.
Is this a song of happiness for being the one to escape? Maybe, but the line about "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" is ambiguous and suggests at a dark irony. He's pledged to let the hooker have her way, and he is leaving his buddy? cousin? behind. In that light, going to Dixie and praising the Lord sounds like commentary on that part of the population.
I think there's more going on in this song.
They went to find work "on the county line." As in, on the edge. And they live on the edge, picking up hookers, lying to them (their fathers own the World Trade Center). And Wayne never shows up for work.
The song ends with the narrator heading into Dixie (it's not real life geography, but the implication is that they were just on the edge of Dixie), seeing Wayne arrested as he leaves.
Is this a song of happiness for being the one to escape? Maybe, but the line about "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" is ambiguous and suggests at a dark irony. He's pledged to let the hooker have her way, and he is leaving his buddy? cousin? behind. In that light, going to Dixie and praising the Lord sounds like commentary on that part of the population.