Story Behind The Song
Written in winter on a New England island Lyrically the song reflects back to the kind of characters and lifestyle Jennifer is familiar with from growing up in rural Virginia. It has a lonesome quality that is typical of her work. But the music is warm and inviting like a hot , lazy summer day. Written on piano, Fred's added horn arrangements are spectacular and uplifting. It's a song you can't stop humming
Song Description
Rich in stunningly descriptive lyrics this is a story at once specific and generic about the trials and tribulations of young love in rural america. The story tracks the lives of a couple from first attraction to having children of their own as if through one lazy, hot and solitary summer. Their struggle to get out of a place of little opportunity and yet their tendency toward staying where they are comfortable.
| Song Length |
5:46 |
Genre |
Pop - Rock, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Relaxed, Cheerful |
Subject |
General, Happiness |
| Similar Artists |
Rickie Lee Jones, Emerson, Lake And Palmer |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
She's all barbed wire and long hair
Ffty miles of no one and nowhere
Shy is a word that she's heard when she wants to but won't dare
He's got words but they don't say
And ties that should hold where he won't stay
A limp that shows first on his face when he stands to go on a cold day
She's been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Says don't it seem like I've known you a long time
Well I like it 'round here where I know my own way
He'll say I'm just about gone girl don't you beg me to stay
There's a rust car for long drives
For dirt roads and brown bagging moonshine
Making plans every year to be moving south come winter time
She's been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Says don't it seem like I've known you a long time
Well I like it 'round here where I know my own way
She'll have gold hair and her mother's eyes
Some kind of sly smile passed down on her father's side
Well she came on a summer moon the sun at half past noon
Six years ago in June
Now she's all headstands and won't mind
A days distance of can't hear and don't find
At war in a back field got armies of junk cars and thistleweed
And years of endless time
She's been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Says don't it seem like I've know you a long long time
Well I like it 'round here where I know my own way
They'll say we're just about gone girl
We're just about gone
We're just about gone girl
Just about gone