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If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. "Come back here and shut the door"/"Don't you recognize them anymore?" Are cries for help from the artist for her partner to get out of that wagon and regain control, but the rest of the song paints an image of that desire ultimately being useless. "I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles" is another thing the artist lends to her partner for the fight, but shows later in the song that the action is not helping.
In the end ("I realize that some things never are made right") the artist is resigned to her fate. She talks about stringing time together to illustrate time just mindlessly passing, and she's worried--or knows! She gives her plea one more try, but it is calm as it fades into instrumentals and the song itself fades away, and we the listener knows that she was right. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. Provide song facts, names, places and other worthy info that may give readers a perfect insight on the song's meaning. There you can add structure tags, correct typos or add missing words.
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“I wanna be that boy / I wanna be that girl / I wanna know what it’s like to fall in love like most of the rest of the world,” Saliers aches over a lovely layer of strings on “Country Radio.” “This is the way I felt doing those four-hour drives from Nashville, listening to country music radio,” she says. “I could almost put my own life story in these songs, but I can’t. There are gender divisions and heteronormative realities. A similar magic unfolded in 1989 when their eponymous major label debut shifted over two million units under the power of “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history.
To hear those collective voices raise into one, singing along and overpowering the band itself, one realizes the importance Indigo Girls’ music has in this moment. In our often-terrifying present, we are all in search of a daily refuge, a stolen hour or two, to engage with something that brings us joy, perspective, or maybe just calm. As one bar band once put it, “We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains…we go to the Bible, we go through the work out.” For millions, they go to Indigo Girls. On Look Long they’ll find a creative partnership certain of its bearings, forging a way forward. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. In the second verse, she moves on to wonder whether this is all worth it.
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Over a thirty-five-year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, the Grammy-winning duo has recorded sixteen studio albums , sold over 15 million records, and built a dedicated, enduring following. Collaborations with a new generation of devoted peers like Brandi Carlile, Justin Vernon , Sierra Hull, and Matt Nathanson continue to bring newcomers to Indigo Girls’ audience. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions. “As time has gone on, our audience has become more expansive and diverse, giving me a sense of joy,” she adds.
"A bag of silver for a box of nails" is another allusion to the Bible, when Judas trades in Jesus for silver and Jesus is subsequently nailed to the cross. It also ties into the general self-sacrificial nature of the song. "There is fire, there is lust"/"Some would trade it all for someone they could trust" is talking about cashing in passion for someone who is stable, who they can rely on. Either that's what the artist has done, traded in what she wants for someone she can predict. Or it's what her partner has done, trading in an equal passion for her for someone who will fight for him.
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