Quote: (03-08-2014 10:15 PM)germanico Wrote:
Quote: (03-08-2014 08:10 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
"Watertown" -- DO NOT get this album if you're prone to suicidal depression. It's a Sinatra's attempt at a (soft) rock opera, a first-person account of a guy whose wife leaves him and his two sons behind.
She didnt lft dude, she died.
Where did you get that from? According to the lyricist, Jake Holmes, she left and didn't come back. I think this is what makes it a real tragedy: he has to face his own failure as a man. If it were death, that's something that would have been out of his control and in a way easier to deal with.
Below are some of his quotes about why she left. This is from a Jake Holmes interview that breaks the album down, song by song (source here from his own Web site).
"THE TRAIN: "...is the story. We find out that he really didn't communicate anything to her, and she isn't coming back. Although we're getting all of this story from him, she never got any of this. If she had heard this album, she might have come home. She never saw this side of him. It gives the story a very deep resonance.""
WHAT'S NOW IS NOW: "...an indication that she had obviously gone with somebody else. She has had a relationship, and he hadn't been able to accept it. That is partly what drove her off to the big city. There is a guilt theme in that song. It is the song that opens up the story.""