Wilderness of This World
Journey Through Life's Wilderness: Terry Allen's Musical Reflection
Lyrics
There's an old shoe
Reference to an old shoe
Out on the highway
Located on the highway
Tells us of the Wilderness of this World
Symbolizes the Wilderness of this World
And an old dirt floor
Refers to an old dirt floor
Moves under me and you
Moves beneath the speaker and another person
Tells us of the Wilderness of this World
Conveys the Wilderness of this World
And the moon falls
The moon descends on a highway
Down on a highway
Describing a highway scene
An that highway crawls
The highway moves slowly across the desert
Cross the desert below
Metaphorically like a sad song, inescapable
Like a sad song
Unstoppable and continuous dancing
You can't stop dancin to
Expresses the inevitability of dancing
Tells us of the Wilderness of this World
Reiterates the Wilderness theme
And the desert falls
The desert descends on the ocean
Down on the ocean
Describing an unusual event
And that motion is all
Alludes to the continuous motion of life
We'll ever knowIt just keeps on spinning
Life's perpetual spinning and limited understanding
This bunch of dancin fools
People dancing recklessly
Run crazy across the Wilderness of this World
Running wildly through the Wilderness
Yeah
Expression of agreement or emphasis
Run crazy across the Wilderness of this World
Repetition of running wildly in the Wilderness
There's an old shoe
Reiteration of the old shoe on the highway
Out on the highway
Restating the presence of an old shoe
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