He takes a deep breath, finds a stone, and hopes or prays or wishes that this will work. He stands under her bedroom window, looks up. I imagine this taking place during the spring, they're seniors now, graduation is quickly approaching. He likes this girl but has always been too afraid to say anything to her all throughout high school. I see it from the POV of this high-school age guy, probably shy and unpopular. or the one I imagine when I hear it, anyway. If I had to pick one favorite song from these guys, it'd probably be this one. She is to forever be the recipient of the singer's longing who hopefully, and pitifully, leaves the floodlight on as a beacon for her return. She is the one who dies in a car crash, going "down, down, down, from youth to the ground." And she plagues him in his dreams causing him to "wake up sweating in my room." In this song, it is his child hood friend, who he mentions in The '59 Sound, as the person he "knows 'cause we were kids and we used to hang." Only to grow up to become his lover or spouse and be the leaving "ex-wife" mentioned in Great Expectatoins. I'm actually starting to think that the "someone" in each case is all the same person, perhaps stretching across the album as a whole. I still have to look further into other songs to see this particular theme pop up. In the '59 sound, he is left alone yet again, and permanently, by someone dieing in a car accident. The yearning for this person to return leads him to plead for her "not take too long to come home."Īnd in Great Expectations we see something similar when he sings "I saw tail lights last night in a dream abut my ex-wife." He has been left again, perhaps by the same person.
The album actually deals quite heavily with concepts of memories/nostalgia, among others, but also abandonment. "My have the years of our youth passed on" seems to mean that they continued a relationship of some kind into the future though, as predicted, she wandered. So to hear Miles Davis playing on a record or "on grandmama's radio" would bring back a flood of memories and nostalgia about this person (girl) who has wandered from him as they have grown older. The Jazz musician, by say 1959, had been well into his career. I think Miles Davis was the sound that these kids were listening to in their youth. So why don't you sing to me on this long drive homeĪnd let the sound of your voice sway sweet and slowĪs we go down, down, down from our youth to the groundĭown, down, down from our youth to the ground With a flick of the wrist and a turn of the key, you'll just fall in my arms So now I've got up my nerve and found me a stone
She never understood that it ain't no good, papa never heard the cool You move like a dream I had, I woke up sweating in my roomīut your mama's got plans and your daddy's aim is true My, how the years and our youth passed on 'Cause I never had a good thing and I always had the bluesīut I heard that you always kinda wondered, Miles, strike up the cool Honey, put on your red dress and your diamond-soled shoesĬlimb on out from that window, climb on out of your room So I laid a kiss on a stone, tossed it upside your window by the roofīefore you change your mind, Miles, bring in the cool There's just something 'bout the summertime, there's just something 'bout the moon Like Miles Davis, I've been swayed by the cool
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