This song means a lot to me. It says a lot about life and how to live it if you can. If you dare,. About the desolation that exists within us all potentially The wildness hat beats in our chest and can lead us off the path onto the wildnerness and the darkness if we don't keep an eye on our compass and the stars and the track ahead of you.
It's by the Triffids, a band who walked their own path with a determined and loping tread. Who I discovered on 1985 and aligned myself to in 1985, the ear when they released their great album Born Sandy Devotional and when I saw them. In Northern London (Islington I suspect), towards the end of a glorious summer. As glorious a summer as I've lived,
I was in love and Wide Open Road is the song I associate mostly with the feeling of the love curdling and dying in the ears which followed. My impotence, jealousy and rage. How love and jealousy can burn in your chest and consume you with rage, confusion and anguish. This is what great songs do and in my lifetime songs will never come much finer or have greater meaning to me..
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