It's interesting when you watch the music video, you get the feeling that the song is about a wife or partner (the fallen angel) who has passed, perhaps during or after childbirth.
But reading more about the development of the song, which was written with Martin Page, it is about Robertson's former The Band bandmate Richard Manuel, who passed in the year before Robertson's 1987 eponymous album was released.
The chorus line "casts a shadow up against the sun" especially hits home for my experience of grief.
It's interesting when you watch the music video, you get the feeling that the song is about a wife or partner (the fallen angel) who has passed, perhaps during or after childbirth.
But reading more about the development of the song, which was written with Martin Page, it is about Robertson's former The Band bandmate Richard Manuel, who passed in the year before Robertson's 1987 eponymous album was released.
The chorus line "casts a shadow up against the sun" especially hits home for my experience of grief.
Such an evocative song.