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In the silver morning hollow
Trembling and getting old
Smelling burnt oil of heaven
About ten years, too big to hold
She don't get up when I come into the room
She don't run through the fields anymore
Built a fire in the kitchen
Made her bed by a stove
Took a walk to the graveyard
But she didn't want to go
She don't worry all them murders of crows
Even though they was always out of reach
She don't get up when I come into the room
She don't run through the fields anymore
Trembling and getting old
Smelling burnt oil of heaven
About ten years, too big to hold
She don't get up when I come into the room
She don't run through the fields anymore
Built a fire in the kitchen
Made her bed by a stove
Took a walk to the graveyard
But she didn't want to go
She don't worry all them murders of crows
Even though they was always out of reach
She don't get up when I come into the room
She don't run through the fields anymore
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The voice of Mark in this song it's totally touching, good work and R.I.P. Mark Linkous.
I think the pet idea is a lovely one. Mark Linkous uses animal imagery in the majority of his songs and spoke about the feeling of closeness he had to animals after his accident. It feels like a touching realisation that a pet that has always been a source of comfort is not going to be around for much longer.
One other thing, and this is not so much a point as just a feeling, but I have just been reading 'Child of God' by Cormac McCarthy - one of Mark Linkous's favourite books, and there is a scene towards the end where Lester Ballard wakes up in a hollow in the ground and sees morning light coming through a crack in the ceiling and he's is just unbelievably pitiful and you know that he is very close to the end. Mark definitely was a huge fan of the book and so the connection feels pretty likely.
TL;DR : Why is this not the last track?
i can definitely see this being about a dog, on the surface, but it can also illustrate the destruction of a human's hopes over the course of his life-- constantly getting extreme passions, enveloping loves destroyed, and after a while just deciding to settle for paralysis; he gives up. it's easier, it's the sane, stable, realistic choice. he gives up hope for attaining those fleeting ineffable states. he don't want all the intense pain and insanity that goes along with constantly trying to attain a phantom ideal.
"She don't get up
When I come
Into the room
She don't run
Through the fields
Anymore"
rest in peace, mark linkous.
Good luck.
you might understand this.
The girl in the movie has been abused her whole life, and i think the song would be looking from the old man's perspective that finds her. "Trembling and getting old" might refer to a growing fear. Which in her case would be try to go without having an addiction to help her feel safe. "Smelling burnt oil of heaven." could be a reference to her addictions, feeling that urge to take action and fill her voids. The chorus "she don't get up" might refer to, the fact she's pretty much just "dying" from the pain, she has no ethusiasm with life anymore. she doesnt care. or, she's just not going to get better. she doesnt want to listen. etc. the next verse explains of the man, taking care of her. trying to rehibilitate her. The next line is kind of hard to describe. possibly. meaning. she doesnt care about all the bad things she's done, and its not like she can do much about them anyways. so she's giving up.
The parts about not getting up when he goes into the room, the crows always being out of reach, the bed by the stove and a walk in a graveyard are all point to it being a pet (a dog) that is dying/dead.
i dont kow the "wonderful life" version
she's on the "dreamt of..." album too.
i whish i find more comments about sparlkehorse. its one of my favorite songs of my favorite band...