This song is so beautifully sad. It's about the narrator's amazing love for Mary, and how their early marriage ruined everything. Over time, they've basically become strangers, but he still thinks about how things used to be and still remembers "her body down by the resorvoir" and how they felt when they were young and they were everything to each other. I can't explain why it's so sad. It's almost like they thought they had something amazing and they had so much faith in it; even right after getting married, they went back to the river like they always had. They were so optimistic about their future, and now the narrator is trapped because he loved someone so much so many years ago and now he has to deal with that sadness and regret every day. It's a really powerful song.
This song is so beautifully sad. It's about the narrator's amazing love for Mary, and how their early marriage ruined everything. Over time, they've basically become strangers, but he still thinks about how things used to be and still remembers "her body down by the resorvoir" and how they felt when they were young and they were everything to each other. I can't explain why it's so sad. It's almost like they thought they had something amazing and they had so much faith in it; even right after getting married, they went back to the river like they always had. They were so optimistic about their future, and now the narrator is trapped because he loved someone so much so many years ago and now he has to deal with that sadness and regret every day. It's a really powerful song.