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Aug. 31st, 2012 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI picked up Jill Sobule's self-titled album at the thrift store last week and just got around to listening to it again. I'd forgotten how deeply depressing Vrbana Bridge is....
It's a song about a young couple shot dead during the siege of Sarajevo. Calling Romeo and Juliet to mind, the two young people's families were on opposite sides of the conflict. They had friends on both sides and thought they could make arrangements to safely leave the besieged city of Sarajevo. Their bodies lay on the bridge they tried to cross for four days before POWs were forced to retrieve them under cover of darkness.
But the album also has Trains on it, full of the romance of the railroad and of daydreams of living other lives and being other people. It connects with me somewhere deep.
It's a song about a young couple shot dead during the siege of Sarajevo. Calling Romeo and Juliet to mind, the two young people's families were on opposite sides of the conflict. They had friends on both sides and thought they could make arrangements to safely leave the besieged city of Sarajevo. Their bodies lay on the bridge they tried to cross for four days before POWs were forced to retrieve them under cover of darkness.
But the album also has Trains on it, full of the romance of the railroad and of daydreams of living other lives and being other people. It connects with me somewhere deep.
