About Anne Dalmadge Expertise I can Answer any questions about lyrics, songs, albums, or pretty much any questions about the band, but my strong subject is lyrics and songs.
Experience I have been an avid Dave listener for four years, my brother got me into his music, we went to his last concert here together, I have all of his albums including Boyd's True Reflections, and can name almost all of his songs when i hear only about ten seconds or less of them.
Question Can you give me an interpretation and anaylsis of dave's Rhyme and reason...
Answer I think it's about his feelings of being caught in a hard place emotionally, and how death is his only release: "My heart calls to me in my sleep
Now can I turn to it
Cause I'm all locked up in this
Dark place -- and I do not know
I'm as good as dead
My head aches -- warped and tied up
I need to kill this pain
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet underground"
I think it's about Dave contemplating suicide (he admitted that he has thought about it before) and I think this song is about his feelings towards that:
"How long I'm tied up
My mind in knots -- My stomach reels
In concern for what I might do or
What I've done
It's got me living in fear
Well I know these voices must
Be my soul
I've had enough
I've had enough
Of being alone
I've got no place to go"
'"In my grave
Lying wired shut and quiet in my grave
Leave me here
Leave it to me to waste here"'
This part might be about doing drugs to relieve this pain: "But sometimes this thick confusion
Grows until I cannot bare it all
Needle to the vein
Needle to the vein"
And asking for help:
"Take this needle from my vein my friend"
Then I'm not quite sure, but I think it's about finding relief from the pain: "Reason -- my reason
Take my head off this terror
I'm fearing I'll come back
I'll see
My mind's all wiped clean
The Needle
Make my great escape
I'll see the cold in time
My head leaves me behind
Let me fade away
I seem caught in time
My head leaves me behind
Body falls cold
And I see Heaven"
