Cowboy Dan is a pitiable character...this only song evokes nothing but sympathy and pity. It communicates the point that man is forever bound by the rules of society (not necessarily city/country) and it's a like walking up a 'down' escalator. Life is futile and sometimes inexplicably cruel, we want things that are unattainable. We are pitiful and small and nothing we can do will change the fact than an "unsympathetic" God remains sovereign over our pitiful self-destructive souls. No matter what we do or don't achieve in life, we all still die..many of us unhappy. Cowboy Dan is the personification of our striking-out against, but failing to change, the life that oppresses us everyday.
Cowboy Dan is a pitiable character...this only song evokes nothing but sympathy and pity. It communicates the point that man is forever bound by the rules of society (not necessarily city/country) and it's a like walking up a 'down' escalator. Life is futile and sometimes inexplicably cruel, we want things that are unattainable. We are pitiful and small and nothing we can do will change the fact than an "unsympathetic" God remains sovereign over our pitiful self-destructive souls. No matter what we do or don't achieve in life, we all still die..many of us unhappy. Cowboy Dan is the personification of our striking-out against, but failing to change, the life that oppresses us everyday.