Where things get kind of confusing, not 100% as to if this applies to the main narrator or if it's just another kind of left field story but the implications of a decaying relationship makes me believe it is.
"you were riding those nights on the highway
always hiding out inside a songwriter's dream there
like a scene from a song, "born to run" or maybe
"running on empty"
ones where they would leave
certain nights when you'd fight you couldn't stick around"
These & previous lines (and mainly the last one) make me believe when the couple would fight one of them would leave and drive.
"certain nights when you'd fight it was fine
but it shook you when the baby would cry
why did you always turn around in the end?
to hear the shattering of glass on the door again?
so loud the baby couldn't sleep anymore?
what didn't you find that you were looking for?"
This completely fucks me up. The married couple, I believe, they don't have a baby - they definitely don't actually. So is it the main narrator's parents, as in HUDSONVILLE? Or just a completely random couple? The talks of falling for a daughter also lead me to believe it's not the main couple..
"somewhere you don't feel the hours pass by
you identified the flowers on the road
i rolled the windows down
and shut off the radio"
In Objects In Space, the narrator's s/o bought a book entitled "Identifying Wildflowers" which confirms the idea that this song applies to the the main couple/narrator.
"i pulled over to the side and felt no time
off the highway with the landscape aglow
still not sure what we were trying to find
i only know we went home"
Mentioned in Stay Happy There, they go on road trips and such trying to find something to sort of remedy the failing relationship. Not sure what it was but they ended up giving up and going home.
So this song either changes perspective or there's some real weird fuckery going about with this apparent baby. That and the hardware store interviews and falling for the bosses daughter, it totally throws me off. But the last couple lines absolutely apply to our main couple, who's relationship is now failing and they can't find a remedy on the roads.
Edit - Can confirm the song switches perspectives from the narrator's parents (in 1981 maybe) and the road trips of him and his s/o.
"Father alone on the highway" is a line from Extraordinary Dinner Party. The bosses daughter was possibly his mother, and the interviewee was his father. The baby is the narrator, as in HUDSONVILLE.
Edit - Can confirm the song switches perspectives from the narrator's parents (in 1981 maybe) and the road trips of him and his s/o.
"Father alone on the highway" is a line from Extraordinary Dinner Party. The bosses daughter was possibly his mother, and the interviewee was his father. The baby is the narrator, as in HUDSONVILLE.
Where things get kind of confusing, not 100% as to if this applies to the main narrator or if it's just another kind of left field story but the implications of a decaying relationship makes me believe it is.
"you were riding those nights on the highway always hiding out inside a songwriter's dream there like a scene from a song, "born to run" or maybe "running on empty" ones where they would leave certain nights when you'd fight you couldn't stick around" These & previous lines (and mainly the last one) make me believe when the couple would fight one of them would leave and drive.
"certain nights when you'd fight it was fine but it shook you when the baby would cry why did you always turn around in the end? to hear the shattering of glass on the door again? so loud the baby couldn't sleep anymore? what didn't you find that you were looking for?" This completely fucks me up. The married couple, I believe, they don't have a baby - they definitely don't actually. So is it the main narrator's parents, as in HUDSONVILLE? Or just a completely random couple? The talks of falling for a daughter also lead me to believe it's not the main couple..
"somewhere you don't feel the hours pass by you identified the flowers on the road i rolled the windows down and shut off the radio" In Objects In Space, the narrator's s/o bought a book entitled "Identifying Wildflowers" which confirms the idea that this song applies to the the main couple/narrator.
"i pulled over to the side and felt no time off the highway with the landscape aglow still not sure what we were trying to find i only know we went home" Mentioned in Stay Happy There, they go on road trips and such trying to find something to sort of remedy the failing relationship. Not sure what it was but they ended up giving up and going home.
So this song either changes perspective or there's some real weird fuckery going about with this apparent baby. That and the hardware store interviews and falling for the bosses daughter, it totally throws me off. But the last couple lines absolutely apply to our main couple, who's relationship is now failing and they can't find a remedy on the roads.
Edit - Can confirm the song switches perspectives from the narrator's parents (in 1981 maybe) and the road trips of him and his s/o. "Father alone on the highway" is a line from Extraordinary Dinner Party. The bosses daughter was possibly his mother, and the interviewee was his father. The baby is the narrator, as in HUDSONVILLE.
Edit - Can confirm the song switches perspectives from the narrator's parents (in 1981 maybe) and the road trips of him and his s/o. "Father alone on the highway" is a line from Extraordinary Dinner Party. The bosses daughter was possibly his mother, and the interviewee was his father. The baby is the narrator, as in HUDSONVILLE.