Love, Me
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| This song is not clearly religious in the early verses of the song, but by time the final verse is heard, it is clear that this song follows the Grossman outline of how a religious song goes.
This song tells the story of a young boy whose grandfather tells the story of how he and the boy's grandmother eloped and the note that she had left for him. Then it moves on to the story of how his grandfather reacted to the death of his father and responds with the same words that his wife left him years before. In reading an interview with the man who wrote this song, Skip Ewing, it was said that this song showed an intense intimacy with a spouse. This type of love can almost be compared to the love that some feel with God. In listening to the lyrics, the religious tones become quite clear from the line that says "I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away" onwards. |
In the second repetition of the chorus, the words
"If you get there before I do/Don't give up on me/I'll meet you when my
chores are through/I don't know how long I'll be/But I'm not gonna let
you down/Darling wait and see/And between now and then/Til I see
you again/I'll be loving you/Love, me."
really change meaning from what they meant the first time around. This time it is a plea to the woman who has passed on, asking her to wait for him to reach heaven before she moves on. This is again another eternal life theme, where it is believed that the person is passed through into the gates of heaven, under the safe watch of God to await his arrival to meet her.
This song overall shows again the belief of salvation after death and how important the relationship between faith and death is to people as a way of believing that the people that they have lost will be waiting for them when they themselves pass on.
"If you get there before I do/Don't give up on me/I'll meet you when my
chores are through/I don't know how long I'll be/But I'm not gonna let
you down/Darling wait and see/And between now and then/Til I see
you again/I'll be loving you/Love, me."
really change meaning from what they meant the first time around. This time it is a plea to the woman who has passed on, asking her to wait for him to reach heaven before she moves on. This is again another eternal life theme, where it is believed that the person is passed through into the gates of heaven, under the safe watch of God to await his arrival to meet her.
This song overall shows again the belief of salvation after death and how important the relationship between faith and death is to people as a way of believing that the people that they have lost will be waiting for them when they themselves pass on.