The line- The kitchen light fell asleep on the bedroom floor\nalways bugged me, I decided it was actually\n \nThe rain came down on the tin roof\nHardly a sound was left from the birthday party\nThe kids and I fell asleep on the bedroom floor.\n\nI consider it a requiem for a dead wife.\nThe other verses mentioniong her were a dream sequence and then memories.\n\nthe red rose was in his Bible, signifying his lost love.\nThe birthday party was the first one after she had passed.\nListening to the organ music and the structure, it sounds like a funeral dirge to me. That\'s just how I play it and sing it.\nIt makes more sense than a light going to sleep.
@OldMan222 IDK why I’m saying anything but it’s clearly a metaphor and it’s beautiful. It’s just like saying it’s raining cats and dogs… It’s comparing one thing to another and it’s very beautiful because it’s late at night and the only light on in the house is in the kitchen, so it’s just a dreamy image that it falls asleep there behind the curtain on the bedroom floor…
@OldMan222 IDK why I’m saying anything but it’s clearly a metaphor and it’s beautiful. It’s just like saying it’s raining cats and dogs… It’s comparing one thing to another and it’s very beautiful because it’s late at night and the only light on in the house is in the kitchen, so it’s just a dreamy image that it falls asleep there behind the curtain on the bedroom floor…
Think about my Mexican home where he says the windows feel no pain… Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol… He’s making a...
Think about my Mexican home where he says the windows feel no pain… Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol… He’s making a play on words with the window pane, but saying the windows feel no pain. Obviously nothing’s burning the sky but that entire song is filled with gorgeous imagery.
Think about any of his songs as he’s a wordsmith and that’s one of the things that makes his music so cool, memorable and timeless. He’s terribly punny - just see onomatopoeia I don’t wanna see you speaking in a foreign tongue… One of his songs. You can see any of his songs for examples of how beautiful his language is.
In the song he was in heaven before he died… He says the harbor is on fire with the dreams and desires of 1000 young poets who failed cause they tried for rhyme without reason floats down to the bottom where scavengers eat them and wash out with the tide.
OK, you can see here that obviously the harbor isn’t on fire. He just has a beautiful way with words… To represent all of the lost lovers who tried to write passionate letters to their significant others, but as it says (comparing to the ocean) that rhyme without reason, just like a piece of lost bait, floats down to the bottom, where the scavengers/bottom feeders of the ocean eat them, they wash out with the tide and are gone forever…
One of my favorite lines is silence is golden until it screams right through your bones. Again, do you see the metaphor here? Silence can never be loud obviously not in traditional way anyway but it’s very clear what he’s saying… It’s golden and great - until it’s driving you insane.
@OldMan222 Lastly, I completely disagree that this is a eulogy, especially after seeing the comments from multiple people listing exactly what John said about this song. I’ve been listening to John Prine for 50 years now and even to this day I’m still figuring stuff out that he says. I’ve been kind of on a quest to find the meaning behind everything because I saw the video where he said a couple of years before he died that his whole repertoire of music was kind of like a joke, and he just hopes that his fans get the punchline...
@OldMan222 Lastly, I completely disagree that this is a eulogy, especially after seeing the comments from multiple people listing exactly what John said about this song. I’ve been listening to John Prine for 50 years now and even to this day I’m still figuring stuff out that he says. I’ve been kind of on a quest to find the meaning behind everything because I saw the video where he said a couple of years before he died that his whole repertoire of music was kind of like a joke, and he just hopes that his fans get the punchline before it’s all said and done.
The line- The kitchen light fell asleep on the bedroom floor\nalways bugged me, I decided it was actually\n \nThe rain came down on the tin roof\nHardly a sound was left from the birthday party\nThe kids and I fell asleep on the bedroom floor.\n\nI consider it a requiem for a dead wife.\nThe other verses mentioniong her were a dream sequence and then memories.\n\nthe red rose was in his Bible, signifying his lost love.\nThe birthday party was the first one after she had passed.\nListening to the organ music and the structure, it sounds like a funeral dirge to me. That\'s just how I play it and sing it.\nIt makes more sense than a light going to sleep.
@OldMan222 IDK why I’m saying anything but it’s clearly a metaphor and it’s beautiful. It’s just like saying it’s raining cats and dogs… It’s comparing one thing to another and it’s very beautiful because it’s late at night and the only light on in the house is in the kitchen, so it’s just a dreamy image that it falls asleep there behind the curtain on the bedroom floor…
@OldMan222 IDK why I’m saying anything but it’s clearly a metaphor and it’s beautiful. It’s just like saying it’s raining cats and dogs… It’s comparing one thing to another and it’s very beautiful because it’s late at night and the only light on in the house is in the kitchen, so it’s just a dreamy image that it falls asleep there behind the curtain on the bedroom floor…
Think about my Mexican home where he says the windows feel no pain… Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol… He’s making a...
Think about my Mexican home where he says the windows feel no pain… Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol… He’s making a play on words with the window pane, but saying the windows feel no pain. Obviously nothing’s burning the sky but that entire song is filled with gorgeous imagery.
Think about any of his songs as he’s a wordsmith and that’s one of the things that makes his music so cool, memorable and timeless. He’s terribly punny - just see onomatopoeia I don’t wanna see you speaking in a foreign tongue… One of his songs. You can see any of his songs for examples of how beautiful his language is.
In the song he was in heaven before he died… He says the harbor is on fire with the dreams and desires of 1000 young poets who failed cause they tried for rhyme without reason floats down to the bottom where scavengers eat them and wash out with the tide.
OK, you can see here that obviously the harbor isn’t on fire. He just has a beautiful way with words… To represent all of the lost lovers who tried to write passionate letters to their significant others, but as it says (comparing to the ocean) that rhyme without reason, just like a piece of lost bait, floats down to the bottom, where the scavengers/bottom feeders of the ocean eat them, they wash out with the tide and are gone forever…
One of my favorite lines is silence is golden until it screams right through your bones. Again, do you see the metaphor here? Silence can never be loud obviously not in traditional way anyway but it’s very clear what he’s saying… It’s golden and great - until it’s driving you insane.
@OldMan222 Lastly, I completely disagree that this is a eulogy, especially after seeing the comments from multiple people listing exactly what John said about this song. I’ve been listening to John Prine for 50 years now and even to this day I’m still figuring stuff out that he says. I’ve been kind of on a quest to find the meaning behind everything because I saw the video where he said a couple of years before he died that his whole repertoire of music was kind of like a joke, and he just hopes that his fans get the punchline...
@OldMan222 Lastly, I completely disagree that this is a eulogy, especially after seeing the comments from multiple people listing exactly what John said about this song. I’ve been listening to John Prine for 50 years now and even to this day I’m still figuring stuff out that he says. I’ve been kind of on a quest to find the meaning behind everything because I saw the video where he said a couple of years before he died that his whole repertoire of music was kind of like a joke, and he just hopes that his fans get the punchline before it’s all said and done.