She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. Just listening for the 784,654th time.and it's just perfect in every way. Are you so different from me? you also wait for this ship. But it's the only real companionship he has and he will stay here, it seems, longer than he or society think he will remain. the only companionship is the working girl on the 's just business, and he has other business, all of this is transient. But his life is fading away and withers, and as he wishes, like the cigarette that withers in to ashes. But, it's his dream, in a way it's his sedative, how he numbs the pain, it's not a crime apparently, to hope.Īnd finally when that day comes, maybe he can take some positive thing out of all this misery. there's no real reason to believe that things will change. He does not know when or how, but there is hope. The antisocial blackbird just doesn't fit around the rest of the society, it's funny but he feels he fits in more around these parts.īut one day there will be salvation from this horrible island he has been marooned in. It's better to be a willow that bends towards the end of the day and accept that you have to do this, drink, cut cocaine, prostitutes, things that makes you feel sick about yourself, than fight it and break. Well about the addiction people fall around the hopefulness of their own life.Twilight falls and we go again. It's about degeneration and hope, kinda reflective of how Lanegan sees his life. Like one long season of rain, I will remainĪnd you know somewhere the ship comes in every day ![]() I'd stop and talk to the girls who work this street, but I got business farther down One day a ship comes in, one day a ship comes inīut I know somewhere the ship comes in every dayįrom my fingertips, the cigarette throws ashes to the ground To the funny sound that a blackbird makesĪs no good reason remains, I'll do the same When the willow bends towards the end of day
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