She demonstrates a sense of poetics and emotional inteligence on this song that is simply beyond normal explanation. It is, as the most popular poster of comment here says, "achingly beautiful", and more, it is philosophical, facing the one great existential fact of our lives squarely and confronting the pain and converting it to beauty, which is what art is for.
My baby daughter and I lay on the big bed and listen to nancy sing , calming and charming voice that reminds you what the humaness of music and softly spoken ideas really mean, we miss you Nancy 😘
Though the song should be absolutely heart breaking, for me it comes off more bitterswee. The grown woman has payed homage to the old true love by revoking an easier life, and thus, is enlarged by it. Beautiful!
It's October, 2018 --here in beautiful St.Marys' Bay Newfoundland and Labrador--and I STILL--find so much peace and serenity in Nanci Griffith's words and music......I have written many many entries in my personal journal -while Nanci sang on cassette or CD....I hope she is healthy and
Griffith Share Lyrics My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane And I said fare thee well true love of mine And I said fare thee well sweet lips of wine And you said fare thee well my Texas rose And then you blew a kiss of innocence as the trains began to roll So long ago You'd gone off to fight the war when I returned from school And I traded in my innocence when the springtime came in bloom And I married for my family; one night I dreamed of you And you were running from me in the rain down on Congress Avenue Now I saw you once in a crowded bar and it was Christmas time I was frightened by the thunder of our hearts in '69 Because I live my life in whispers now and I choose to live alone So I slipped back to the avenue and flipped my collar to the cold
