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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Joined: Jun 2010
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I like this, too. Good voice for it -- sort of a cross between Tom Waits and Burl Ives.  The twist at the end really made the song, IMO. I do think it could have been even more powerful if the narrator increasingly resented the land for thwarting his dreams year after year as his longing to leave grows stronger. When he says "Men had given more for less I guessed/ In places worse than this hard land" it seems like he doesn't mind the place. So it's not that big a surprise that he stays. I had a notion that he could come to think of the land in terms of a woman and the gold as her heart. Anyhoo, I'm rewriting so that means I like it. Good luck with it.
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