| Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A great version of Louis Collins was recorded by Mississippi John Hurt... | |
| Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I have been the girl (well, I'm a guy but you get the point) in this song in real life. I once left a girlfriend behind at home to travel through South America. I told her I'd be away for six months, but once I got there I realized I needed more time. So I wrote to her and told her my trip would be more like eight months. Her response, though she had never listened to Dylan, was pretty much exactly what Bob writes in the penultimate verse. My thoughts were not with her. I went home after eight months but things were never the same and we soon parted ways for good. Every time I hear this song now, I cry for the guilt of how I broke her heart, how lonely and abandoned she must have felt at home, how the emails and letters and gifts I sent her to "make her time more easy passin'" were really, at the end of the day, worthless. |
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| Jack Johnson – Wrong Turn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think Jonstafa is closest. The meaning is pretty literal here: he's waiting for her, she hasn't shown up and he's hoping that's simply because she's taken a "wrong turn", and not because she's decided it's over. Which he knows in his heart it is, although he thinks "we could make it last, even if it'S just for a while", he knows he's just delaying the inevitable. |
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