I think this song is from the perspective of a man who's lost his wife during the birth of their first child. The setting is along the New Madrid faultline, early 90s.
She is as impactful to him as the area's historical earthquake.
Family comes from New York for the wedding.
She dies. He wishes the predicted earthquake would roll him under the fault line, kill their baby and bring her back to life.
He wants family to come from New York for the funeral, and hold him like she once did, at the fountain.
I hear "HIS death won't even be still" (as in stillbirth), "he CAROMS over the landfill" (imagining the infant's body thrown in with the garbage).
I think this song is from the perspective of a man who's lost his wife during the birth of their first child. The setting is along the New Madrid faultline, early 90s.
She is as impactful to him as the area's historical earthquake.
Family comes from New York for the wedding.
She dies. He wishes the predicted earthquake would roll him under the fault line, kill their baby and bring her back to life.
He wants family to come from New York for the funeral, and hold him like she once did, at the fountain.
I hear "HIS death won't even be still" (as in stillbirth), "he CAROMS over the landfill" (imagining the infant's body thrown in with the garbage).
[Edit: Incorrect geographical reference.]