He also says that his presence could be explained to people by saying he was a school friend, but he was truly her ex-lover (I'd have carried your wedding shawl, you could have said I was a school friend). I'm not sure what the 1st two lines of the chorus means, but I think the last two are saying that no one else knows the girl like he does (They say it's just the sun, but I know that face).īy the second verse, I think the song becomes the guy's thoughts (the lyrics become words like "you'd" and "you could" and "I'd" - if that makes sense). He is still at the wedding, but he starts thinking of possibilities of him and the girl getting back together. I love the lines (excavating down you'd find the drowning and the drowned and then there's us babe). I think they mean that other people's relationships are either failing or have failed but theirs is different or still has hope, which is how a lot of people tend to feel about their own relationships. Anyways, in the next lines, he is thinking that 'you could look back at our relationship but it would be pointless because you already know how it ends' - they split up (you could walk to our memorial but it's pouring, and it ends how you'd expect). In the last 5 lines of the verse, it means something like he could pull out a bunch of reminders of the girl and display them in his house or something so it would be as if she was still there, but it wouldn't be the same (instead it would be super depressing ya know). I think the next part of the song is saying that even if he tried to get back with her, which would involve the girl cheating on her now-husband, it wouldn't work, because the "devil's tricks" wouldn't work on her (the devil's tricks just seem to sit so light on you).
Also, she is not a person that people can control and her mind cannot be changed easily and she has a strong will (they'd never get the marionette that's tied on you).
DRY THE RIVER BIBLE BELT FULL
Next part: people would try to condemn their relationship, but they don't know or understand their full story (in the parliamentary houses there'll be talk of what this is, with inexpert witnesses and evidence against us). But the guy would justify their relationship (but I'll take my pound of substance from those insubstantial men, whatever their arguments, I'll prove your innocence). Ok, I'm iffy about my whole interpretation of the song, but even more so the lines (testify allegiance with more puncture wounds than Jesus) - but these lines are really powerful in my opinion.
But I thiiiink that the girl and her to-be husband are saying their vows (the song is back in the present tense), and the guy is kind of being sarcastic or mocking their vows of allegiance or something. In the line where he says "I'm over-sympathetic", I think that over-sympathetic personality could be the reason he lost the girl. I read this article about how those type of people sacrifice their own happiness for others and it could apply to this. In the last line (leave that painful memory in the Garden of Gethsemane), I think he is saying that he is trying to forget the relationship and move on. Also, the Garden could be a symbol for human burden or something like that. I don't really know.Īgain, this is just what I think. I probably completely missed what the writers intended for it to mean, but to each their own (interpretation). I don't know if anyone will even ever see this, but I just want to know what other people think the song means.ĭang this was long. General CommentI think that this song is talking about a man in an affair.
The line "I'd have carried your wedding shawl, you could have said I was a school friend" suggests that he is more than just a school friend to the woman who just got married.
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