I think this song is about a wedding, whose wedding can't be said for certain, but it looks like based on lyrics such as these: "Some nights get worse than others, and I start thinking about your mother And she's here with me as far as I can tell"
"Is my granddaughter Ruthie still working at the movies?" It appears to be a father of a daughter who is also a grandfather.
It seems to be about the conformity of the notion of marriage, and how it is not really taken seriously anymore.
"You can put them on the counter there with all the other flowers"
Bringing the flowers that all the other guests have brought that don't have nearly as much meaning as they are intended to or should have. However, it is also possible that this song is coming from the perspective of someone else and possibly at a funeral, it could go either way, my reasoning for this is based on this line
"I'm glad you made the visit, and if you think you have a minute
You should sit and talk until it's time to leave"
One doesn't just stop by a wedding, and so it is possible that this is a daughter of said father stopping by and the grandfather without his wife is asking now about all the things that he has been absent to and believes are the true standards of how love should be defined.
If it was a wedding, he'd be saying to his daughter, that's the love that I came to bear witness to and I hope that is the love that you intend to commemorate at your wedding. If it is a funeral it could be the daughter or the father saying that at the funeral all the examples given are the love that he/she came to bear witness to, in memoriam of the deceased.
Truly a great song. The Band Dawes are lyrical geniuses.
I think this song is about a wedding, whose wedding can't be said for certain, but it looks like based on lyrics such as these: "Some nights get worse than others, and I start thinking about your mother And she's here with me as far as I can tell" "Is my granddaughter Ruthie still working at the movies?" It appears to be a father of a daughter who is also a grandfather.
It seems to be about the conformity of the notion of marriage, and how it is not really taken seriously anymore. "You can put them on the counter there with all the other flowers" Bringing the flowers that all the other guests have brought that don't have nearly as much meaning as they are intended to or should have. However, it is also possible that this song is coming from the perspective of someone else and possibly at a funeral, it could go either way, my reasoning for this is based on this line "I'm glad you made the visit, and if you think you have a minute You should sit and talk until it's time to leave" One doesn't just stop by a wedding, and so it is possible that this is a daughter of said father stopping by and the grandfather without his wife is asking now about all the things that he has been absent to and believes are the true standards of how love should be defined. If it was a wedding, he'd be saying to his daughter, that's the love that I came to bear witness to and I hope that is the love that you intend to commemorate at your wedding. If it is a funeral it could be the daughter or the father saying that at the funeral all the examples given are the love that he/she came to bear witness to, in memoriam of the deceased.
Truly a great song. The Band Dawes are lyrical geniuses.