Happy Fiddler's Green Day 2016 Everyone - Printable Version

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Happy Fiddler's Green Day 2016 Everyone - Chris Tanz - 09-17-2016

For all those girls out there for whom it's Mother's Day, Happy September 17!

Obviously, the subject matter of this song is incredibly sad, but is there a more evocative lyric than "His tiny knotted heart / Well, I guess it never worked too good / The timbers tore apart / And the water gorged the wood."

Ct

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Re: Happy Fiddler's Green Day 2016 Everyone - potsie - 09-17-2016

I agree that the song is incredibly sad but, if it was possible, it became an even more melancholy affair for me when I read this interpretation of "balloons are filled with rain" on Hip Musueum:

"Maybe a simple reference to the dark clouds associated with such tragedy, but Hip Head Sam Fitzpatrick adds: "balloons are filled with rain," I've always assumed, is about an IV in the hospital. When I hear that I see the young lad looking up from his hospital bed and seeing an IV perhaps and in his innocence sees it as a balloon filled with rain. That's all I will say about that cause it honestly breaks my heart."

There are not many images sadder than that of a young child in a hospital bed hooked up to an IV.

Wow, I'm getting myself down while writing this. Gotta lighten the mood by listening to In View...

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Re: Happy Fiddler's Green Day 2016 Everyone - Chris Tanz - 09-17-2016

Wow, loved that line and always thought of it as incredibly sad, but never thought of it as an IV.

Drip, drip, drip -- raining venom -- balloons are filled with rain.

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Re: Happy Fiddler's Green Day 2016 Everyone - paulster2626 - 09-20-2016

Chris Tanz Wrote:For all those girls out there for whom it's Mother's Day, Happy September 17!

Obviously, the subject matter of this song is incredibly sad, but is there a more evocative lyric than "His tiny knotted heart / Well, I guess it never worked too good / The timbers tore apart / And the water gorged the wood."

Ct

My son was born with a weird messed up heartbeat and had to be hooked up to all sorts of things to be monitored. After a few days everything kind of cleared itself up, but I remember driving home from the hospital to get supplies for the wife and I one evening and this song came on the iPhone and HOOOOO BOY nope'd out of listening to that one immediately.

Was just weird how you can listen to a song for years, and then all of a sudden it just hits home like a sack of hammers.

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