I like this song, but I like it not because it speaks of redemption or soothing, salubrious things, but because it quietly, but fiercely, satirizes and criticizes what it purports to celebrate.
The beautiful music and your lovely voice suggests that all is well and wonderful in rustic, rural, Western America.
But the lyrics tell another story: the characters are endlessly roaming around the continent and going nowhere.
THEY TRAVEL EAST AND WEST AND NORTH AND SOUTH TO deflect attention from the fact that they are steadily going down, down, down. He not being born is busy dying. And these guys certainly aren't being born.
This reminds me:
I have always found that New Yorkers tend to be stationary relative to most Ameicans.
New York is not the land of the big opren road.
New Yorkers, instead of running to a new mirage, try to build and make a life
So many westerners seem sadly disadvantaged. So many westerners I have known seem dumbly stuck on the road being hurtled from one bad situation to another situation, almost as defeated and dejected as the cowboys of brokeback mountain. They rarely read, think,, follow politics, make an investment, make a stand.
Great song - a serious ear-worm. I listened to it once and it got straight into my head. So ... I listened a few more times. If I lived anywhere near Flagstaff, I'd definitely come check you out live. Unfortunately (though fortunately in other ways as it's quite nice looking at the US from outside at the moment), I'm a few miles afield in England. Oh, well - at least there's YouTube!
I LOVE road songs! Good job,
J
I like this song, but I like it not because it speaks of redemption or soothing, salubrious things, but because it quietly, but fiercely, satirizes and criticizes what it purports to celebrate.
The beautiful music and your lovely voice suggests that all is well and wonderful in rustic, rural, Western America.
But the lyrics tell another story: the characters are endlessly roaming around the continent and going nowhere.
THEY TRAVEL EAST AND WEST AND NORTH AND SOUTH TO deflect attention from the fact that they are steadily going down, down, down. He not being born is busy dying. And these guys certainly aren't being born.
This reminds me:
I have always found that New Yorkers tend to be stationary relative to most Ameicans.
New York is not the land of the big opren road.
New Yorkers, instead of running to a new mirage, try to build and make a life
So many westerners seem sadly disadvantaged. So many westerners I have known seem dumbly stuck on the road being hurtled from one bad situation to another situation, almost as defeated and dejected as the cowboys of brokeback mountain. They rarely read, think,, follow politics, make an investment, make a stand.
Great song - a serious ear-worm. I listened to it once and it got straight into my head. So ... I listened a few more times. If I lived anywhere near Flagstaff, I'd definitely come check you out live. Unfortunately (though fortunately in other ways as it's quite nice looking at the US from outside at the moment), I'm a few miles afield in England. Oh, well - at least there's YouTube!