Re: Wreck On The Highway Lyrical Mistake

toetod wrote:
> Yes, agreed 100%, that the key to the whole thing is in "there was
> nobody there but me."
>
> As far as mistakes go, Bruce, could make a timeline one like mentioned
> in the song, but he would not drop a line like "nobody there but me"
> without a purpose. That's why I see it as he's looking at himself on
> the road. But, I still don't see it as you've stated, the singer's
> own death (a la The Rising) that he's looking at.

I agree with all of it except the "as you've stated" part -- I didn't
say that the singer is literally dead a la The Rising. At least,
that's not the intent of what I wrote. The last verse indicates that
he is alive, meditating on his doom, seeing it over and over again.

> But he does make a
> connection. It's the image, where he sees a stranger on the road, and
> when he gets closer he sees himself. Nobody there but me. The story
> of a guy who feels he's pushing his luck every time he jumps in the car
> - that eventually he's going to be the wreck by the side of the road,
> and his downfall is inevitable. In a way, that theory foreshadows
> Nebraska even better - the killer in Neb, the hustler in AC, the night
> rider of State Trooper, are all pushing their luck, waiting for their
> number to come up. In Wreck, he sees a vision of himself lying by the
> side of the road, because he sees no other end to his riding.

Yes. It's nearly the image that Bruce brought up when he did his
Sirius interview a couple months back, that of hitting the wall or
going over the cliff or whichever metaphor he used.

--Matt

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