Posted on 04/22/2016 3:23:24 PM PDT by mdittmar
I am so sorry for your loss.
Well,it’s from the song writers perspective,or the listeners.
Thanks. They were nearly 30 years apart. I lost my second wife over a year ago and I’ve about gotten myself back together again. I learned a long time ago song lyrics can have different means to different persons based on their experiences in life. As well some songs have taken on a different meaning for me at different times. My oldie favorite is by a group called Kansas “Carry on my wayward son”. It never seems to loose meaning for me LOL. :>}
I always took the following verse to mean that “She found out about her diagnoses since this verse describes a “singular” event and not a plural one. I take “She went away” to be another reference to her death that is described in a bit more detail in the next verse which I posted already.
“I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin’ needlessly in the middle of the day
And it was in the early spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing she went away”
The Tree referred to in the song is a brilliant reference to a reminder of a lifetime that once was and a part that lives on. A visible sign in nature that Honey was once among us.
But a good song will always have different meanings to different people. If people can relate to it with there own life experiences then it will be a more successful song.
Such as Don McClain’s “American pie”.
Carry on my wayward son. It never seems to loose meaning for me LOL. :>}
Great song. You probably like “Hold On” by Kansas as well.
I have a playlist which includes “The Shortest Story” by Harry Chapin, “D.O.A.” by Bloodrock, “The Winner Takes it All” by Abba, “Empty Chairs” by Don McClain & “Morning Dew” by Bonnie Dobson, Grateful Dead & Nazareth. It helps to have a Xanax while listening to that playlist.
“The Shortest Story” is one song that is actually painful to listen to.
I don't remember it and due to slooooowww internet dial up I can't listen right now. But I read the lyrics and saw the timeline. I liked Dust in the wind also especially the music to it. Livgren was definitely going through some changes. Look up on Youtube Rachel Rachel {group name} and Carry on. Someone very familiar appears throughout the video LOL.
Such as Don McClains American pie.
That is one of my favorite songs of all time. It only happens rarely, but whenever I figure out the meaning of one of the obscure lyrics, I always feel a sense of accomplishment. The father, the son, and the holy ghost clearly refer to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper, but so many of the other lyrics remain obscure. Don McLean has always been very mysterious about that song, never giving a clue as to what all of its lyrics refer to.
I remember hearing D.O.A. when I was about 13-14. Weird song especially for radio play in the early 1970’s. The video? Show it in drivers education for teens.
Actually Don spilled the beans awhile back, and your interpretation seems fairly spot on. I always gave the song a more Apocalyptic meaning.
“MacArthur Park” always puzzled me.
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I don’t think Honey ever existed. The tree and the rain are real and both were real on the very same day, but everything else was fiction.
I really don’t know the actual members well enough to recognize them. I do know that “Hold On” was written by one of the members to his wife during a time of spiritual transformation. He was telling is wife to hold on through the changes.
I did see part of the band perform in 1985 at a special event. They were already experiencing changes at that point. They were playing at a Major Christian Conference. They started playing “Dust in the wind” and hundred’s of conference goers starting singing with them flawlessly in unison. The lead singer suddenly stopped and started talking about how they used to write hopeless songs, but were now into writing spiritual songs.
Everyone in the Audience suddenly had one of those “guilty” moments.
Interesting. I know it, but never really listened to it. Now I will listen more closely. Thank you for bringing that up!
“Honey” exists,It means something to me,maybe different from others.
On a side note getting back to Bobby Goldsboro. At one time he worked playing guitar for Roy Orbison in the early 60's. Who'd a thunk it LOL.
Just
No!
“I remember hearing D.O.A. when I was about 13-14. Weird song especially for radio play in the early 1970s. The video? Show it in drivers education for teens.”
D.O.A. came out the year I was born so I didn’t know the song until a few years ago.
Yeah, the video could scare some teens but the video really doesn’t go with the song. The bassist wrote the song after seeing his pilot friend crash his plane and die, so the song is about a plane crash. But the video shows a car crash. Strange.
Yeah, when the Angels came--on their Harley-Davidsons.
I like Goldboro’s Summer, the First Time. It’s basically the musical version of Summer of ‘42.
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