This song is about how arid impoverished dryness can be misleading, and we always hold a deep inner ability to grow from pain. Underwater pearls are a symbol of how life can suddenly spring from pain and death - dry irritating sand becomes a pearl in an oyster. A Resurrection Fern plant will be brittle and dry, but incredibly arise lush and green in just a few hours after receiving water.
Everything in the lyrics are dry, brittle and dead:
Glass
Folded clothes (dried after washing)
Corn (dry when crows eat it in autumn)
Gun (steel, dry)
Grandma (wrinkled)
Bear claw (dried and old, killed by Grandma after it killed her dog - a long time ago)
Tin-car trains (brittle metal, and trains tend to not have foliage on the tracks)
Fallen house (dried wood; possibly burned down)
Baby's breath (a dried flower that is included in lush bouquets)
Ashes of a fire (very dry)
Baling wire (often used for hay, which is dry; and hay is usually most moist at its core)
Autumn leaves ("We'll see everything" because the leaves are dry and falling off trees)
Buzzard's wing (a sign something has died)
Search Google for "Resurrection Fern will rise from the dead" to learn more about this amazing plant.
This song is about how arid impoverished dryness can be misleading, and we always hold a deep inner ability to grow from pain. Underwater pearls are a symbol of how life can suddenly spring from pain and death - dry irritating sand becomes a pearl in an oyster. A Resurrection Fern plant will be brittle and dry, but incredibly arise lush and green in just a few hours after receiving water.
Everything in the lyrics are dry, brittle and dead:
Glass Folded clothes (dried after washing) Corn (dry when crows eat it in autumn) Gun (steel, dry) Grandma (wrinkled) Bear claw (dried and old, killed by Grandma after it killed her dog - a long time ago) Tin-car trains (brittle metal, and trains tend to not have foliage on the tracks) Fallen house (dried wood; possibly burned down) Baby's breath (a dried flower that is included in lush bouquets) Ashes of a fire (very dry) Baling wire (often used for hay, which is dry; and hay is usually most moist at its core) Autumn leaves ("We'll see everything" because the leaves are dry and falling off trees) Buzzard's wing (a sign something has died)
Search Google for "Resurrection Fern will rise from the dead" to learn more about this amazing plant.