Someone on the GL version wrote that this song details a down on his luck man near Hoover Dam who went west looking for his life and failed. It details the hopelessness felt has everything passes you by and you're stuck standing still, hopes and dreams deferred and the only thing you feel is the icy chill of failure and neglect.
It seems he had found a woman who was a good match and maybe so when it was warm out at Boulder dam. But at the end, he's sold his Martin guitar and he's stuck out at 10 degrees. The temperature is a metaphor for how life is going.
Someone on the GL version wrote that this song details a down on his luck man near Hoover Dam who went west looking for his life and failed. It details the hopelessness felt has everything passes you by and you're stuck standing still, hopes and dreams deferred and the only thing you feel is the icy chill of failure and neglect.
It seems he had found a woman who was a good match and maybe so when it was warm out at Boulder dam. But at the end, he's sold his Martin guitar and he's stuck out at 10 degrees. The temperature is a metaphor for how life is going.