Jason Isbell performing "Stockholm" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Buy the album 'Southeastern' on iTunes: bit.ly/1ccq2Ea Amazon: amzn.to/1hk0CaG Jason Isbell: www.jasonisbell... / jasonisbellmusic / jasonisbell
The meaning is two fold. 1) It is a reference to Stockholm Syndrome : "feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor" In this case the captor is his wife. 2) It's also a reference to actually playing a gig in Stockholm, Sweden, and wanting to get home to see his wife (who isn't/wasn't always on tour with him).
another idea is that the captor in this instance of Stockholm syndrome is alcoholism, it's no secret that Isbell once was an addict, and this could have been a retrospective song about drinking his life away and, at the time, not wishing to get better
@@shekelwarlocke That's perfect actually, there were inconsistencies with the Stockholm syndrome of a lover part. (Why "let me go home") But wanting to be released from dependency due to having fallen in love is perfection.