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Lyric Analysis - Do you have your own take on this song? Maybe you have something of your own to add. E-mail the site under the "Home" section of the menu above - why not share your thoughts for all to see? |
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Hornsby is a master of the dark tale, as has been shown in "Valley Road" and other songs. Often, Hornsby has disguised the meaning of the song. "The Show goes on" is one great example. However, there’s no mistaking the theme of "White-wheeled limousine"; a wedding-day infidelity which happens in the church grounds as the groom is arriving at the church!!! I need not say much more, suffice to say that after the event,"The father of the bride is drinking so slow". The musical interest of the song stems from some fine bluegrass banjo solo playing. "Country Doctor" is another classic Hornsby dark tale, with a similar rural feel to, for example, "Preacher in the Ring". In this instance, I think the doctor has poisoned his wife (with the stuff in the "bottles unmarked") in order to start a relationship with another woman. If the story is too depressing, then just fast forward to the middle instrumental section, which some hallmarks of a Hornsby and the Range instrumentation: Organ background, electric guitar playing in quite a tight harmony. However, it’s my opinion that on "Hot House" there is a certain depth to the instrumentation and harmony which I don’t think was heard with the Range. There’s just one puzzling line at the end, written I think from the author’s perspective, which I haven’t grasped the significance of: "My wife told me one day, I remember kind of strangely, at a friend’s wedding one day, it was a look that he gave me". |
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