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Lyrics - Falling Down Blue

  • Friday, January 21 2011 @ 07:59 MST
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Pump up the Volume When a person is in music school, there are endless hours spent analyzing music. I don’t know if that’s the reason why lyrics are important to me or not but what a song is saying is always an important component to my enjoyment of a particular tune.

It’s no secret that I’m one of “those” Blue Rodeo fans but I’m certainly not alone. Jim Cuddy has the amazing talent of being able to tell stories through song and it’s one of the reasons that his ballads are so popular. So here’s my personal analysis of the lyrics to Falling Down Blue (see, music school wasn’t a total waste). Oh, and I promise next time to pick a happier song. I've had this one stuck in my head for days and I thought that blogging about it may get it unstuck. Everyone tells me I’m lucky
Got my whole life to live yet

When a relationship ends, it’s rarely mutual. There’s usually one person that ends up feeling hurt and humiliated. When you are that person, there’s very little comfort in hearing from friends and family that things aren’t as bad as you think they are and that everything happens for a reason.

Can’t say they’re wrong
But the days seem so long
Living inside of my head

Days and nights do tend to drag out when you keep going over what’s happened again and again. There always seems to be an expectation of closure; a kind of de-brief to figure out what went wrong. Why, I’m not sure. When someone is done with another person in their life, they just are and I doubt talking about it is ever very constructive. People don’t like to believe that they can be so thoughtlessly dismissed. Worse yet is knowing things were doomed from the beginning. Some people are often prey to falling for passion over reason.

Maybe I’ll get some relief now
Now that your things are all gone

Are things ever really all gone? I know that I’ve never been able to rid myself of photos, letters, etc. and I applaud people who can. I read an article recently in a magazine that said when trying to forget about a past relationship, you should avoid the places that you used to go with that person. That’s only brilliant advice if you move often. Not to mention that if you and the other person had similar hobbies it’s also difficult to avoid certain memories. For instance, if you’re a mountain climber, you’re probably not going to stop heading out to Banff because you’ve recently had your heart broken. You’ll just be racked with bitter-sweet memories for a while every time you head out to climb.

Won’t sit here staring at nothing all night
Bleary-eyed greeting the dawn

Insomnia will suck the life out of a person. At least if you can sleep, there is a chance of escaping the things bothering you. Without sleep, there is an endless cycle of tossing and turning followed by days of caffing up to function and the cycle never ends. It’s maddening.

She lived outside of the city
On days when I’d visit her there
I'd watch her out dancing all lit by the moon
The cold winds of time in her hair
Then we’d go driving for hours
Turn off the lights and just glide
Moving like spirits along through the night
Light through the trees as our guide

The second verse is one of those specific recollections that tear a person apart in the weeks or months (sometimes years) after a break-up. What can I say, some people like to torture themselves and in the past, I’ve certainly been guilty of it.

All right, I miss you tonight
And I’m not really sure what to say

It does not feel nice to admit that you miss the person who has so casually forgotten that they were ever a part of their life.

It keeps rolling in like a slow moving train
It gets harder and harder each day

I would guess that this is a reference to being stuck at a crossing when a train is moving by at a snail’s pace (or worse yet, switching). However, as anyone who dispatches trains will tell you, there is no slower train than the one that is lined up for the perfect meet that has suddenly started crawling along. Either way, it’s painful.

Just when I think that the worst of it’s through
I am stopped in my tracks by some vision of you

More senseless self-torture brought on by a) not getting rid of “things” and b) not avoiding old haunts.

All right, I miss you tonight
I admit that I’m falling down blue

In the end, this is a song about resignation. Unlike some of Cuddy’s other songs such as “Bad Timing” or “Don’t Get Angry” that at least have a little lingering hope that the other person involved is feeling miserable too, “Falling Down Blue” is a solitary admission of loneliness, heart-break and sadness.

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