Theme: Wealth and status, the natural cycle of life (so immortality, birth, death), and a person's connection to the earth.
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CD:"Each had his turn at this earth. They worked on, moving together—together—producing the fruit of this earth"(12).
CM (artwork): People are united by their work on the earth, each person producing the fruit that becomes apart of them. In the end, it is the right thing for all humans to give back to the land that made them. "...coming home to a place he'd never been before. He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again" "Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more, more people, more scars upon the land." CM (music): This man that the song is about travels away from home, only to come back to find it changed. Sometimes change is good, but when he comes back, it is like he was never there before because the change has transformed his home. People miss their connection to the earth, or specifically for this man, his connection to the rocky mountains. |