"The Ledge" was a tree branch: one where Richard Thompson and his friends always met as small children. He wrote the song at age 17. Over the years? The phrase—and the song—acquired a weight the writer never knew he intended.
After performing the song at his mother's funeral, as stipulated in her will? Richard conceded he'd been too shy. Declaring love for his bandmates, in a song they'd publicly sing again and again? To be so direct: no, that wouldn't do.
"The Ledge" was a tree branch: one where Richard Thompson and his friends always met as small children. He wrote the song at age 17. Over the years? The phrase—and the song—acquired a weight the writer never knew he intended.
After performing the song at his mother's funeral, as stipulated in her will? Richard conceded he'd been too shy. Declaring love for his bandmates, in a song they'd publicly sing again and again? To be so direct: no, that wouldn't do.