| Gillian Welch – Lowlands Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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You live your life. You start out young and optimistic and full of life and laughter and dreams. Life eventually beats you down. Life becomes one damned thing after another: disappointment, illness, heartbreak, loss, anxiety, uncertainty, depression, conflict. At some point you realize you are getting old; you are set in your ways; you lack energy; you are beaten down; you don't have the energy to change things because you've been in the lowlands too long, and time is running out. This is a song about growing old. |
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| Gillian Welch – Tennessee Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's definitely "why can't I go and live the life of Riley". | |
| Patty Griffin – Mary Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Mary is the mother of Jesus. That's who the song is about. However, I believe Patty turns Mary into something like Gaia, the earth goddess. It's the female divine principle. Yin instead of Yang. It's an ode to Yin, the feminine principle. How could people say it's about her grandmother? Did Patty mention that? "Jesus said, "mother I couldn't stay another day longer." " He flys right by and leaves a kiss upon her face." How much more explicit does she have to be. Patty equates the Virgin Mary with the Earth Goddess, Gaia. She's covered in roses, slashes, wilderness, etc. It's the earth personified as the feminine Earth Goddess, Gaia, Mary. |
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| Patty Griffin – Up to the Mountain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually, the song is, in a sense, a paraphrase of the speech Martin Luther King gave the night before he was murdered. The voice in this song is without a doubt MLK. That's it. It's MLK giving his Up To the Mountain speech, the night before he was murdered. That's it. Google the speech. You'll see what I mean. |
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| Patty Griffin – Long Ride Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me it seems pretty plain that Patty is assuming the voice of man who has just left the funeral of his wife of 40 years. The "long ride home" is the ride home from the funeral. On the long ride home he recollects the beginning of their lives together, how over time he took her for granted, said unkind words, etc. Then he's pulling into the driveway and he realizes how empty his life is now without her. I imagine a person could sing this song from a widow's perspective, but it is very clearly from a widower's perspective. Patty has assumed the male voice before in "Top of the World". In that song she is singing from the perspective a man who has recently died. "One night they called me to supper, but I never got up. I stayed right there in my chair." |
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| Gillian Welch – The Way It Will Be Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe it's "What did you want it to be?" not "What did you want me to be?" "It" refers to a relationship that has been broken. He dumped her. It still has her devastated. She can't say his name without a crow flying by. He's got her walking backwards into her hometown. It hit her hard, with long lasting consequences. He left her out of jealousy. He made an ultimatum: him or me. He lays out his conditions. The he makes it, is the way it will be. He has preconceived ideas about how the relationship should go. He burnt a bridge. He's still burning bridges. Even though he hurt her, she still cares, and she fears he's moving in a direction that leads to loneliness and great suffering. But, he made it that way. That's the way it will be. |
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| Patty Griffin – Top of the World Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Nope! Has nothing to do with her father. All three verses are from the point of view of a ghost, a man who has all kinds of regrets about how he didn't live the way he should have. Patty's dad is a cool dude. |
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| Patty Griffin – Top of the World Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Patty Griffin wrote it!! | |
| Gillian Welch – The Way The Whole Thing Ends Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Great minds think alike? ;) | |
| Gillian Welch – Elvis Presley Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe the lyric should be "like you never seen", not "like he never seen". The idea is that the people who watched Elvis on TV in those early days were shocked by his gyrations. They called him "Elvis the pelvis". Elvis might have gotten some of his dance moves from watching black R&B artists perform. Elvis had seen it all. So, it's not "like he never seen". It's "like you never seen". It's "he was all alone in a long decline", not "he was all alone in a long dead climb". Elvis was fat, isolated and addicted to all kinds of drugs. He was in a long decline. |
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| Gillian Welch – Annabelle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Life is full of suffering, especially for a sharecropper who is the voice we hear in this song. Bad things happen. Children die. The crop fails. Life is hard. The only consolation is to have faith in the afterlife. Why is life so full of suffering? His answer is that he doesn't know. Maybe it's just the way the world is. The world isn't here to please us. It's all a mystery. When we've all gone to Jesus, then he'll tell us what it all means. There be an answer in the sweet bye-and-bye. |
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| Gillian Welch – My Morphine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Plus, "war" rhymes with "floor". "Wall" doesn't rhyme with "floor". | |
| Gillian Welch – The Way The Whole Thing Ends Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Each verse begins with a reference to an innocent time in the past, a time in which the person she's talking to had it right. But, the person lost his connection to the real meaning of life, even though he fell into the right way to live by the accident of birth. What is the meaning of this life we are living? Love. Connection. Togetherness. Community. He sought, instead, the glorification of the Ego. He gave up the innocent pursuit of love and connection and togetherness and community. He wanted to separate himself from others, to be one-up on others. But that is a false, untrue, wrong pursuit. And it always ends in failure, and sadness and suffering and disappointment. That's the way the cornbread crumbles. That's how a false search for meaning ends. The only meaning in this world is Oneness, Connection, Love. |
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