The Big Sky

[rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill)]

        Jeff speculated on the nature of the line "You never understood 
me, you never really tried" in The Big Sky.  My feeling is that this 
may be "the sky" or "the clouds" saying this, saying that people don't 
take the time to appreciate these things any more.  I don't have any 
real "proof" of this, but here's a quote that kind of suggests it: 



        The next song is called "The Big Sky."  Someone sitting looking 
at the sky, watching the clouds change.  I used to do this a lot as a 
child, just watching the clouds go into different shapes.  I think we 
forget these pleasures as adults.  We don't get as much time to enjoy 
those kinds of things, or think about them; we feel silly about what we 
used to do naturally.  The song is also suggesting the coming of the 
next flood - how perhaps the "fools on the hills" will be the wise 
ones.   (1985, KBC 18)
/sa

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