I was generally confused about the meaning of this song, but while talking about it to a friend and telling him the lyrics we both looked at each other and had a sort of instant simultaneous realization about what it COULD be.
I always thought it was a song sung from the point of a very twisted man.
A man so obsessed with love, and yet so afraid of losing it he'll do anything to make an everlasting love that nothing could touch.
And the line "Backs to the wheel, There's granite to shove" brought this idea into my head.
The singer was in a family, and so consumed by fear, he decides he has a way to be with them forever. He decides to kill his family and bury them (driving out to murder and bury them, hence backs to the wheel, granite to shove)
He kills his family so nothing else can touch them, in order to build an everlasting, bulletproof love.
This could go along with the idea of a war veteran having flashbacks. An action like murdering your own family would ellude to some sort of mental disfunctioning.
He's seen how twisted the world is and he realizes the only time people are perfectly safe, untouchable, and everlasting, is in death.
That's just my take on it, fits with the atmosphere I think.
I was generally confused about the meaning of this song, but while talking about it to a friend and telling him the lyrics we both looked at each other and had a sort of instant simultaneous realization about what it COULD be.
I always thought it was a song sung from the point of a very twisted man.
A man so obsessed with love, and yet so afraid of losing it he'll do anything to make an everlasting love that nothing could touch.
And the line "Backs to the wheel, There's granite to shove" brought this idea into my head.
The singer was in a family, and so consumed by fear, he decides he has a way to be with them forever. He decides to kill his family and bury them (driving out to murder and bury them, hence backs to the wheel, granite to shove)
He kills his family so nothing else can touch them, in order to build an everlasting, bulletproof love.
This could go along with the idea of a war veteran having flashbacks. An action like murdering your own family would ellude to some sort of mental disfunctioning.
He's seen how twisted the world is and he realizes the only time people are perfectly safe, untouchable, and everlasting, is in death.
That's just my take on it, fits with the atmosphere I think.