The WELL: deadsongs.vue.36: Cassidy

#12: Bill McKenney (gratefulwood) Fri 22 Apr 05 16:34

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:34:00 PDT

"There he goes and now here she starts Hear her cry" [Read entire topic]

#11: Marked from the Day That I was Born (ssol) Sun 10 Apr 05 15:48

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:48:00 PDT

Ooooh... more GD lyrical ambiquity. [Read entire topic]

#10: David Gans (tnf) Sun 10 Apr 05 10:32

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:32:00 PDT

Yes, Sean, it's been made explicit many times. Bobby was working on the song while Eileen Law was preparing to give birth in the home they shared, and Barlow wrote the lyric with the death of Neal Cassady and the birth of Cassidy Law in mind. [Read entire topic]

#9: from SEAN ROURKE (tnf) Sun 10 Apr 05 10:31

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:31:00 PDT

Hello-

I always thought of "Cassidy" as a tribute to Neal Cassady. The lyrics: "lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac," and "wheel to the storm and fly" are especially reminiscent of Kerouac's recollections of the long road trips with Cassady in "On The Road." Kerouac even tells the story of their trip to Chicago in a Cadillac which incidentally got stuck in the mud on a country road.

Maybe I'm just stating the obvious...what do you guys think?

-Sean Rourke [Read entire topic]

#8: Julie Ellen Anzaldo (jewel) Mon 2 Aug 04 10:28

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:28:00 PDT

Or it could be a reference to reincarnation. Many trees - many births. As in, a tree is planted in Israel when a child is born. Countless lives. That fits well to me with boundless seas. [Read entire topic]

#7: who begat me? (comet) Sun 1 Aug 04 20:45

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:45:00 PDT

Or it could just refer to the countless "family trees" from which we all are descended; a bit of humility to the fact that we are not the original fathers of even "our own" children. [Read entire topic]

#6: from ED F (tnf) Sat 31 Jul 04 10:52

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:52:00 PDT

Ed F. writes:

I always thought that "child of countless trees" referred to when Neil died while trying to count the number of railroad tied between two locations in Mexico. A bet that he made with Kesey or somebody. He was apparently very high on speed at the time and the hot sun was too much for his heart.

EdF [Read entire topic]

#5: Gary Burnett (jera) Fri 26 Sep 03 14:45

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:45:00 PDT

And the line "catch colt draws a coffin cart" should be *hell* to sing, with all those hard c's, but boy, does it sound fine when Bobby nails it. [Read entire topic]

#4: it's good to touch the green green grass of home (xian) Fri 26 Sep 03 14:32

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:32:00 PDT

Yeah, that track kind of "proved" they could access the x-factor magic in acoustic form, no problem-o. [Read entire topic]

#3: Brian Noe (noebie) Fri 26 Sep 03 13:48

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:48:00 PDT

a friend played the "reckoning" live recording for me, and this song just knocked me out -- when they come out of the jam into "flight of the seabirds" and the crowd reacts...just magic [Read entire topic]