Listening to the motion of the lyrics is like watching the gerridae on a gently lively pond, grittiness and all. Though looking into the music as anything more than a surface for the lyrics to glide on is pretty futile in strophic form. It's an updated folk form, so the lyrics carry the wieght of the meaning.
I don't know that I trust these lyrics, but something I've thought a lot about is the title.I think it's a colloquial corruption of "tickweed," those weed-like flowers that litter rural highways.
Listening to the motion of the lyrics is like watching the gerridae on a gently lively pond, grittiness and all. Though looking into the music as anything more than a surface for the lyrics to glide on is pretty futile in strophic form. It's an updated folk form, so the lyrics carry the wieght of the meaning.
I don't know that I trust these lyrics, but something I've thought a lot about is the title.I think it's a colloquial corruption of "tickweed," those weed-like flowers that litter rural highways.