Would you agree?

We should start by saying that when it comes to interpretations everything is valid, there is not right or wrong interpretations. Maybe one is more appropriate than the others. Having it in mind we invite you to listen to the song below and then read and comment on our interpretation.

From music to lyrics the song is strong. It generates sensations of denunciation and hopelessness, the one who is talking has given up only because he has fought for all that he could fight.

The song tells the story of a young man who has lost all his hope, a man who is experimenting homesickness, a man who, probably, is a murder. From the first stanza we can say that the man feels there is nothing else to do in that place, the place where he grew up, it offers nothing new, “There was no one in the town and no one in the field... This dusty barren land had given all it could yield”.   He has left his land at an early age, he has wandered and he has not found calm and rest. Then, he starts talking to someone, he is warning that person to be prepared for leaving too; the young man sarcastically hopes the person does not feel the same he does: “So collect your courage and collect your horse And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse”.

He acknowledges he has done something wrong, he knows he has no hope, but he seems not to care, he is resigned to his fate, the jail: “Seal my heart and break my pride I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide Align my heart, my body, my mind To face what I've done and do my time.”

But, who is the person he is talking to? “Well you are my accuser, now look in my face Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace”. Apparently, he is talking to an unfair, dishonest but powerful person, someone like a ruler, in that person’s hand it is to provide or not the people with what they need to live. That dishonest person is the one pointing out the young man’s crime. However, he does not have the authority to judge the young man, according to what is stated above.

What is the young man’s crime? he warns his accuser he  will kill him because of all the unfairness he committed: “Well, there will come a time I will look in your eye You will pray to the God that you've always denied Then I'll go out back and I'll get my gun I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"”. And that is what actually happens, “I went out back and got my gun, said, "you haven't met me I am the only son"”. Why is the young man not disturbed? Because he quite knows what he is doing, killing an unfair greedy ruler who oppressed to the end his people and his family, he knows what he has lived and what he saw the ruler do. “ Well, yes sir yes sir yes it was me I know what I've done 'cause I know what I've seen I went out back and got my gun, said, "you haven't met me I am the only son".

Now we want to pose a questions for you, dear readers: What do you think the singer mean when he says or sings: "you haven't met me I am the only son"?