| Iron & Wine – Sixteen, Maybe Less Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A more positive possible take on this song: it's not about dissatisfaction and longing for the past, it's about young love that's grown old. his wife is the same girl who he meets beyond the ridge. in the last stanza, "our newborn love" is actually a newborn, their child. "time has bridled us both", meaning we're old now but we're still in love, i remember how it was when we were young. but that interpretation is pretty much ruined by "i met my wife at a party when i drank too much". how could he have met her at a party if he knew her from the ridge? i also love the small details he changed in this (in the reins) version, like: "beyond the ridge to the west, the sun had left the sky" - another sign of age, of loss. |
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| Iron & Wine – He Lays in the Reins Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have no idea when this song was written, but after reading & seeing Brokeback Mountain, I can't help but have a different idea about what this song is about than before. "We may well find you laid like your steed in his reins"...? hm. The album came out before the movie, but the Annie Proulx story was published a few years before that. but more likely, the last stanza is about death of this cowboy. we are bringing him gifts one last time, he's laid out for the funeral. and "in his reins" refers to God. like your steed in god's reins, tangled too tight and too long to fight. wow, what an amazing song. but still, post-brokeback, it acquires another great meaning. Can anyone translate the Spanish? In the liner notes, it's written: "Nunca pense que jamás Tener la oportunidad de reencontrar el camino de nuevo Para formar un mundo mejor" my weak spanish skillz say something like: "never think it's too late to take the opportunity to meet again the road to make a better world." |
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