An amazing B-side I would skip for a year before I let it play one day to my amazement..
This song show Sam's creativity at its best..a story about a childhood friend who got physically and possibly spiritually lost and found. The imagery is BIblical, with a memory centering on a hymn sung with her by the narrator describing the Flood, and tying it into the story when referencing the physical storm during the search, the emotional storm it caused the town, the alienation of predatory animals on Noahs ark representing her defiant spirit, and throwing in passing beast characters, like the blue tick hound, the leopard, the wolf..The brushfire reminding us of the story of Moses..
LIke so many of his songs, again, Sam Beam just showing how brilliant of a writer he is, being able to tell a story poetically, and paint the picture of it lyrically with metaphorical imagery and double meanings..Amazing stuff.
An amazing B-side I would skip for a year before I let it play one day to my amazement..
This song show Sam's creativity at its best..a story about a childhood friend who got physically and possibly spiritually lost and found. The imagery is BIblical, with a memory centering on a hymn sung with her by the narrator describing the Flood, and tying it into the story when referencing the physical storm during the search, the emotional storm it caused the town, the alienation of predatory animals on Noahs ark representing her defiant spirit, and throwing in passing beast characters, like the blue tick hound, the leopard, the wolf..The brushfire reminding us of the story of Moses..
LIke so many of his songs, again, Sam Beam just showing how brilliant of a writer he is, being able to tell a story poetically, and paint the picture of it lyrically with metaphorical imagery and double meanings..Amazing stuff.