The song title evokes the cemetery of nearly 400,000 military graves in Texas.
The lyrics have a circumspect opening with perhaps the superficial thoughts of a visitor seeing reality and the birds there.
The visitor then goes deeper, the sun is introduced, personified as lost in the night, anxious to return at dawn like the birds in spring.
Finally, the personified wind is asked if it has no home yet still is the wind, can souls do the same? "If there's no home is there no death"
The song is well written in that musically it has a longing feeling to it, but never resolves, rather ends with the punch of the last two lines, where the visitor is left hoping the deaths are somehow not forever.
The song title evokes the cemetery of nearly 400,000 military graves in Texas. The lyrics have a circumspect opening with perhaps the superficial thoughts of a visitor seeing reality and the birds there. The visitor then goes deeper, the sun is introduced, personified as lost in the night, anxious to return at dawn like the birds in spring. Finally, the personified wind is asked if it has no home yet still is the wind, can souls do the same? "If there's no home is there no death" The song is well written in that musically it has a longing feeling to it, but never resolves, rather ends with the punch of the last two lines, where the visitor is left hoping the deaths are somehow not forever.