My engineer wife always points out that if you buried the body in the concrete of the dam, it’s gonna create a big cavity that will cause structural issues.
I feel the drop of rain line is something of a concession, like okay maybe I won't live out this archetype again but I will exists within the wheel. Some of those outlaw country guys could get a little hippie Dippin at times.
To me the main concept of the song is explaining reincarnation without using metaphors. Using a metaphor at the very end, and a very basic one at that, to tie the song together is lazy. If they were going to say every soul is being recycled like rain, there would be no point in telling the story of a highwayman which is 99% of the song. There theme should speak for itself. You don’t need to summarize your song in one line in the song.
To me the main concept of the song is explaining reincarnation without using metaphors. Using a metaphor at the very end, and a very basic one at that, to tie the song together is lazy. If they were going to say every soul is being recycled like rain, there would be no point in telling the story of a highwayman which is 99% of the song. The theme should speak for itself. You don’t need to summarize your song in one line at the end
If they were going to use a throwaway line to make a very heavy connection fit in the amount of time allotted in the song, they shouldn’t have ended the song with it.
Dan made me question my love of this song and Spencer made me love it again. Thank you Spencer.
"I slipped ironically on real rain and fell below..." God damn I love you Dan.
did he have that prepared or did he riff it on the spot?
like tears in the rain...
I miss this. Dan going on about something he thinks he's got a perfect joke in and Spencer or Jeff just killing that theory with a couple words.
My engineer wife always points out that if you buried the body in the concrete of the dam, it’s gonna create a big cavity that will cause structural issues.
I always interpreted it the way Spencer did
I feel the drop of rain line is something of a concession, like okay maybe I won't live out this archetype again but I will exists within the wheel. Some of those outlaw country guys could get a little hippie Dippin at times.
To me the main concept of the song is explaining reincarnation without using metaphors. Using a metaphor at the very end, and a very basic one at that, to tie the song together is lazy. If they were going to say every soul is being recycled like rain, there would be no point in telling the story of a highwayman which is 99% of the song. There theme should speak for itself. You don’t need to summarize your song in one line in the song.
That is because that is correct :P :D Dan just never thought about it in that way and it kind of went over his head.
got this shit on vinyl. it's a banger and it's insane. Mike Judge explains everything in Tales from the Tour Bus.
Highwaymen didn’t invent the drop of rain analogy
The end of cloud atlas has one, “what is an ocean but a multitude of drops?”
@@musicjail yeah its an old Buddhist metaphor
I love that song
It's clearly a treasure map...
To me the main concept of the song is explaining reincarnation without using metaphors. Using a metaphor at the very end, and a very basic one at that, to tie the song together is lazy. If they were going to say every soul is being recycled like rain, there would be no point in telling the story of a highwayman which is 99% of the song. The theme should speak for itself. You don’t need to summarize your song in one line at the end
If they were going to use a throwaway line to make a very heavy connection fit in the amount of time allotted in the song, they shouldn’t have ended the song with it.
Yeah and aroun!
Well shit imma hear that song