Sorry about the delay on this, but Starlite Diner is on hiatus right now. I plan on picking it up again sometime in May, but it’s going to be idle for a little while.
See you soon,
Bryn
Tomorrow March 2, 2009
On the surface, “Tomorrow” sounds just like any old country song. It mentions trains, missing your baby, and Waylon Jennings, for god’s sake… But when you find out a little more about the situation, the song is a lot heavier. I never really looked into it, but found out just this evening that the song was co-written by Carrie Hamilton, who passed away during the making of Demolition. While you could look at the song literally and see it revolving around a man and woman who are physically and geographically seperated, it’s hard to not think about two people being seperated by death.
When you think about introducing death into the lyrics, the first lines of the second verse really mean something more than they do at face. “A million miles of nothing/Yeah, you’re driving all alone” represents that journey she’s making by herself into whatever comes after life.
Welcome to Starlite Diner December 8, 2008
Welcome to Starlite Diner, a project I’m taking on where I’ll be blogging about a different Ryan Adams (and the Cardinals, in some cases) song every day until I’ve done all of them. That’s right, ALL OF THEM. Right now I’m just going to work my way through the studio albums, but once those are done, you can look forward to posts about b-sides, tracks from unreleased albums, and songs that have only been heard live. If there’s anything you’d like to request, feel free to send me an e-mail at bwrich@eiu.edu (put something about Starlite Diner in the title, just so I know…)
I look forward to diving deep into this great catalog, and I hope you’ll be with me all the way…
Thanks,
bwr
