Its a song about an old couple. The women is probably suffering from alzheimer's or a similar disease that has mental side effects. "Some days a can't even dress/trust myself" answer, "its killing me to see you this way" the chorus is refering to either the truth about what this life actually means or the truth in a diseased mind, either one the ship (life) will carry there bodies (not minds) safe together until its over (shore).
they begin to sing together when it goes "your gone gone gone away" and then the next five lines because the husband is watching his wife become a ghost of who she was and the wife can hardly recongnize her husband. "Just let me go we'll meet again soon" you dont have to fight to hold on anymore, but "wait wait wait" because there are short periods when she can remember.
the little voice thats holding her back could even be her old self, holder her back from dying because the husband says "tell her that i miss our little talks" and she then says "soon it will all be over buried with our past" this could be a stretch but the song is titled "little talks"
I think if you read and listent o the whole thing again with these ideas they will seem pretty obvious. Or I could be 100% wrong...
@penname I completely agree. My mom died of alzheimer's and this song just reminds me of her disease. You are 100% on the mark. Funny how such a deep, sad topic has become a rocking live favorite.
@penname I completely agree. My mom died of alzheimer's and this song just reminds me of her disease. You are 100% on the mark. Funny how such a deep, sad topic has become a rocking live favorite.
Its a song about an old couple. The women is probably suffering from alzheimer's or a similar disease that has mental side effects. "Some days a can't even dress/trust myself" answer, "its killing me to see you this way" the chorus is refering to either the truth about what this life actually means or the truth in a diseased mind, either one the ship (life) will carry there bodies (not minds) safe together until its over (shore). they begin to sing together when it goes "your gone gone gone away" and then the next five lines because the husband is watching his wife become a ghost of who she was and the wife can hardly recongnize her husband. "Just let me go we'll meet again soon" you dont have to fight to hold on anymore, but "wait wait wait" because there are short periods when she can remember.
the little voice thats holding her back could even be her old self, holder her back from dying because the husband says "tell her that i miss our little talks" and she then says "soon it will all be over buried with our past" this could be a stretch but the song is titled "little talks"
I think if you read and listent o the whole thing again with these ideas they will seem pretty obvious. Or I could be 100% wrong...
Good interpretation :) I had the same idea while I read the lyrics.
Good interpretation :) I had the same idea while I read the lyrics.
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@penname I completely agree. My mom died of alzheimer's and this song just reminds me of her disease. You are 100% on the mark. Funny how such a deep, sad topic has become a rocking live favorite.
@penname I completely agree. My mom died of alzheimer's and this song just reminds me of her disease. You are 100% on the mark. Funny how such a deep, sad topic has become a rocking live favorite.