This is my favorite Gord song of all. For about 30 years I have been thinking on and off just what the hell it is all about. Of course when Gord said the soul is the rock, he could have meant that one's soul is the rock, the foundation that our existence is all about. The rock will always roll: maybe our souls are subject to "movement" now and then, we falter, we make mistakes. In circles around the sun, doing rings around the pole, I just don't know. The mind is a light for the heart which cannot see...that's simply magnificient. Of couse, think about it, it's true..mastefully stated. Dylan-level. Everyone's sleeping now, two by two...nobody gives a damn about committment or morals anymore...everybody's sleeping with each other morality be damned!
Although Gord has probably slept with many women outside of marriage or committment himself (slightly hyprocritical).
Late one night when the moon shone down we went to the mill at the edge of the town, she wore white, I wore black, the town was sleeping when we got back...maybe about ending the "everyone's sleeping two by two"
crap and finally committing to a relationship. But how does that fit in with the song up to that point? See? Just a wonderful, complex song that I guess I don't ever want to know the final answer for.
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