Story Behind The Song
It started with an image of an old farm house in dusty middle America. Guy Clark wrote a song called "She Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and said it was a song about ten seconds in a woman's life. I like to think this could be the same woman and this song is about the turning point just before that crucial ten seconds where she made the decision to go somewhere better.
Song Description
A woman, perhaps in a midlife crisis. Not living up to her potential. Not satisfied with career, relationship, life in general. She ponders what she's here for, why she's here. She's stuck and begging for something more.
| Song Length |
4:01 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - Rural |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Restless, Troubled |
Subject |
Existence, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Six days a week she's cleaning
Dusting other people's picture frames
She says, "It's not a job really"
"Just what I do between coffee breaks"
She used to be a dreamer
Claims she doesn't miss that now
As long as she makes the previews at the Sunday matinee
Is this the game
The game we came
Came to play?
She has a steady boyfriend
But he won't let her call him that
He leaves his pickup idling
He won't take off his cowboy hat
She hears another empty promise
As he walks out the back door
Jumps up on the bench seat of his beat up Chevrolet
Is this the game
The game we came
Came to play?
She leans back in her porch swing
Folds her arms across her breast
Hides the thrift-store stains fading
On her favorite summer dress
Says a prayer in whispers
To a God outside herself
Swinging in the shadow of a rusted weathervane
Is this the game
The game we came
Came to play?