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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I've read countless analyses of the Sad Eyes lyrics, it maybe most written about song he wrote. But I still don't know if the 'sheet-metal memory' phrase could be applied to anything other than Cannery Row.
Any thoughts?...
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I don't know, but one idea I have seen mentioned and like is that Sara Dylan's father was apparently a scrap metal dealer. So, for example, in
From a Buick 6 which like
Sad Eyes... seems be associated with Sara the first lines are
I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kids
But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid
She's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread
maybe the idea of "graveyard woman" and "junkyard angel" is seeded from her background. And then in
Sad Eyes... there are a number of references to metals including the
Sheet metal memories of Cannery Row. Maybe
Cannery Row is an indirect reference to her father's metal scrapyard?