So...I've read these ideas and I see where you guys are coming from, but they all fail to make much sense to me. This is a song again about losing his religion...It is a song about religious oppression. He waited for God, for a calling. The rain washes into the river, leads to the sea.. Eastern to mountain...to Ararat for a third party call from Yaweh, the words placed upon the stones. Commandments which he will not follow...Nor will he follow the Muslim faith, the oppression of women, in cites along the Tigris, I suspect...Desert cities are all on rivers.. Religious oppression, the singing ocean dimming conversations....and for all of it he expresses sorrow... Pretty straight forward and ever sentence makes sense...The other versions leave large parts of the song shrouded in mystery. The Israelite home and dream, not his choice, all there.
But what do I know?
So...I've read these ideas and I see where you guys are coming from, but they all fail to make much sense to me. This is a song again about losing his religion...It is a song about religious oppression. He waited for God, for a calling. The rain washes into the river, leads to the sea.. Eastern to mountain...to Ararat for a third party call from Yaweh, the words placed upon the stones. Commandments which he will not follow...Nor will he follow the Muslim faith, the oppression of women, in cites along the Tigris, I suspect...Desert cities are all on rivers.. Religious oppression, the singing ocean dimming conversations....and for all of it he expresses sorrow... Pretty straight forward and ever sentence makes sense...The other versions leave large parts of the song shrouded in mystery. The Israelite home and dream, not his choice, all there. But what do I know?