The Lighthouse's Tale
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| [[When You Come Lighthouse's Tale | Artist = Nickel Creek | Cover = Nickelcreeklighthouse.JPG | from Album = Nickel Creek | Released = 2001 | Format = | Recorded = | Genre = Progressive bluegrass | Length = 5:01 | Label = Sugar Hill | Producer = Alison KraussBack Down]] (2001) |
The Lighthouse's Tale (2001) |
Reasons Why (2002) |
The Lighthouse's Tale was the second single by progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek from their self titled debut album.
[edit] Trivia
- The song was written by Adam McKenzie & Chris Thile.
- At five minutes and one second, it is the longest single ever released by Nickel Creek.
- A critic for the Houston Chronicle once said in an article regarding the release of Why Should the Fire Die? that Nickel Creek once "sung sweetly about foxes and lighthouses". This statement is strange however, because two thirds of the characters in The Lighthouse's Tale died.[1]
- The lighthouse in the video is the Cape Neddick Light, near York, Maine.
[edit] Track listing
- The Lighthouse's Tale (Radio Edit)
- The Fox (Live)
- Let It Fall (Live)
- The Lighthouse's Tale (Music Video)
[edit] Synopsis
The Lighthouse's Tale is about a lighthouse, the keeper, and his fiance. The lighthouse serves as a narrator to tell how the keeper was going to marry a beautiful woman who had to sail in a fierce storm. She doesn't make the journey. The next day, the lighthouse "watched as he [the keeper] buried her in the sand. And then he climbed my tower, and off of the edge of me he ran." The lighthouse concludes by saying "and though I am empty, I still warn the sailors on their way". The haunting lerics that keep repeating are "and the waves crashing around me, the sand sliping out to see, and the winds that blow remind me of what has been and what can never be"
