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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."
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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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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.
