good job summerbabe. i think there is a little bit more, though. the scene in the restaurant is right on - but i don't think that the chorus is about wishing the world was more simple. at first i did - i thought that the "shady lane" was like the "range life" that he wishes for in another song (guess which song) - you know: home, home on the range . . . where seldom is heard a discouraging word, etc.
but now i think that the shady lane is a peaceful cemetery. in the middle of the debacle at the restaurant the narrator begins to think of the futility of all this, how it will all end in death. and aging. the narrator is transported momentarily to his death bed where he is old and dying and demented trying to recognize his heirs. and the lines about god are confused because the narrator is confused about god as well.
then he's back to the present at the embarrassing restaurant situation.
but maybe the shady lane is heaven - not a cemetery. the narrator is hoping that there is a heaven – like everybody else.
the world's collide
but all that i want is a shady lane.
good job summerbabe. i think there is a little bit more, though. the scene in the restaurant is right on - but i don't think that the chorus is about wishing the world was more simple. at first i did - i thought that the "shady lane" was like the "range life" that he wishes for in another song (guess which song) - you know: home, home on the range . . . where seldom is heard a discouraging word, etc.
but now i think that the shady lane is a peaceful cemetery. in the middle of the debacle at the restaurant the narrator begins to think of the futility of all this, how it will all end in death. and aging. the narrator is transported momentarily to his death bed where he is old and dying and demented trying to recognize his heirs. and the lines about god are confused because the narrator is confused about god as well. then he's back to the present at the embarrassing restaurant situation.
but maybe the shady lane is heaven - not a cemetery. the narrator is hoping that there is a heaven – like everybody else.
the world's collide but all that i want is a shady lane.