![]() Tom, thank you for the immense joy you’ve given me over my 34 years. Curiously, my favorite song of his entire oeuvre may be a bit more obscure than most, as it’s a more recent cut from Highway Companion, an solo album that came out I believe in 2006 or so? “Saving Grace” is just Petty at his best, with a fantastic guitar melody and lyrics that cut a delectable message as it soars along to its conclusion. And ever since I’ve been a fan of his work over the years, and find a lot of his music to be incredibly well written and expertly performed. I ended up buying that album on CD once I got a CD player, as well as his Greatest Hits. #Saving grace tom petty full#My parents both liked him, and therefore I heard a lot of his singles and the album Full Moon Fever a ton through my childhood and teens. ![]() Petty has been a part of my musical appreciation since I was very young. (i sense he says we're all but a chaff in the wind, do we really know who we are, or whats going on? but we live life to our ability anyway.Update – It’s been confirmed that Tom Petty passed away yesterday, so this is now officially a RIP post. (he must be on an airplane, to be flying over backyards, he has a bird's eye view of what seems to be the South- country homes and ranches.?) (fading by degrees: civilization is passing him by, global warming, the cities are not all they seem, they will pass away) General CommentI’m passing sleeping cities Even if we aren't "really sure" about this whole situation and where it's leading, we pretend to be "confident". ![]() (Does "rolling up the carpet" refer to carpetbaggers, poor and desperate profiteers from the North who raided the South after the Civil War?)Īmericans always bullshit about how they feel fine, even when life is caving in on them. If your place is two rooms, it ain't a mansion! But that sad mansion is suddenly looking pretty good from the next generation's point of view - the "father's two-room mansion" no longer has "headroom for expansion" and they're resigning us to "a corner of the floor". The oxymoron "two-room mansion" shows how ridiculous Americans are about our aspirations - we're temporarily embarrassed millionaires. We live in a time of increasing poverty, diminishing expectations. (As for the statues and all, haha I have no idea what that means. We take refuge in hedonism ("drink on every floor") or in prayer ("a thousand amens"). The "guard on every door" brings to mind the paranoia of a disintegrating social fabric - a locked door, a guard dog, a man with a pistol who is eager to shoot home invaders. We hope for a miracle - a saving grace.Īs in so many of his songs, Tom feels alienated or alone ("moving on alone"). The country has changed almost beyond recognition. ![]() He's in rural country ("country homes and ranches"), flyover country ("the branches below"). ![]() Watching life between the branches below." To see them now is to believe the reality of the decay. Tom moves through it and describes it as he goes.Ī lot of US cities have faded from past glory. ![]()
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