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Does you mother tell you things?
Long, long when I'm gone?
Who you talking to?
Is she telling you I'm the one?
It's a grave mistake and I'm wide awake.
Drive-In's rained out
Weatherman wet-fingers the sky
He pokes it out, he pulls it in
He don't know why
It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
It's well worth the wait
We don't go anywhere
Just on trips
We haven't seen a thing
We still don't know where it is
It's a safe mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
Well, well it's all the same mistake
Dead to rights and wide awake
I'll drop a caribou, I'll tell on you
I'll tell on you, I'll tell on you
You've got a boat-load of nerve
But I would say you've been told
You work me against my friends
And you'll get left out in the cold
It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
It's been a long, long, long time running
It's well worth the wait
Long, long when I'm gone?
Who you talking to?
Is she telling you I'm the one?
It's a grave mistake and I'm wide awake.
Drive-In's rained out
Weatherman wet-fingers the sky
He pokes it out, he pulls it in
He don't know why
It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
It's well worth the wait
We don't go anywhere
Just on trips
We haven't seen a thing
We still don't know where it is
It's a safe mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
Well, well it's all the same mistake
Dead to rights and wide awake
I'll drop a caribou, I'll tell on you
I'll tell on you, I'll tell on you
You've got a boat-load of nerve
But I would say you've been told
You work me against my friends
And you'll get left out in the cold
It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time running
It's been a long, long, long time running
It's well worth the wait
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Track duration: 04:23
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Overall, the song is basically the ramblings of a man who is speaking to a former lover with a lot of bitterness but also a kind of awe. It's like he has just lost all the vestiges of affection that he had for her and he is hyper-conscious of this. I always picture him saying all of this out loud in an empty room. He knows that nothing positive can come out of saying these things to her but he has to say them out loud to move on.
"This is a song for a guy who believes that prostitutes should wear wedding rings, because they get way more business"
It accents Fully completely´s meaning.
Just on trips"
my all time favorite line from any song.
i like to think it's about the people in the song wasting time sitting around getting high...'tripping out'
not accomplishing anything and time continues to pass them by
The first verse seems to be directed towards the child, whom the mother has been trying to turn against the father.
I have no idea what the weather man thing is about, but that's why the hip is great.. you'll find meaning to verses even years after hearing the song. All I know is this verse expresses a lot of frustration.
The 'just on trips' is probably about how futile a little family vacation is...as in it can't patch an apparent void between the parents.
The final verse seems to be directed towards the woman herself. Call her out for what she is and shut her out in the cold.
reminds me of a father with his child whom he hasn't seen very often and now they are on some 'mini vacation' (or so he would tell the child) - but all the father can afford is to drive from one motel to another across the prairies or 'up north'... or maybe the father can't bring the child home for any one of various reasons...
the weatherman on tv is just the weatherman on the tv in the mundane moth-balled motels each night
he doesn't really know where he is going, but it's a 'safe mistake' because he's with his child, finally
the father, the man, is slowly getting his life together and if he knows just one thing it's that he's glad he's with his child: "well worth the wait".
brings tears to my eyes
(my favorite part of the song is how gordie sings this - what a great delivery! you guys rock, man!)
"It's been a long time running
It's been a long time coming
It's well worth the wait"