"A Song About Someone Too Stupid To Live" Topic

After reading through all the other suggestions that came up in the Gordon Lightfoot and Teen Death threads, my mind brought forth (unbidden, I'll have you know), another piece of tonal dreck.

"Wildfire" by Messrs Michael Martin Murphey and Larry Cansler.

Seriously, an overwrought song "meant to inspire melancholy" about a woman and a pony dying in a "killing frost"? What's that about? The only thing a killing frost will do in is your begonias. If one gets lost in that kind of weather, you'd get lost in your back yard. Ergo, "Wildfire" is a song about two beings too stupid to live.

Wyatt

I cannot disagree with you about the overalll wretchedness of that putrid song.

Well, there were cases of crack addicts getting lost and disoriented while high and dying of exposure. But yes, a 'killing frost' is a bit of a poetic license. Perhaps we can charge them with impersonating poets.

The melody isn't too bad and the lyrics induce diabetes. However, a couple of lines past the 'killing frost' is the real culprit – a blizzard. Out in Nebraska and other Plains states there have been more than a few deaths in blizzards.

Which reinforces the comment about stupidity – people in those states generally know better than to go out in one.

Notice, please, just *where* she comes down from, in the middle of Nebraska…"Yellow Mountain". Now, I've been to Nebraska, and you can almost see the curvature of the earth while you're driving through the state.

So, let me see…she goes out to cover up the flowerbeds, and a blizzard whips up put of nowhere, the horse freaks out, and she chases him down and they both freeze to death. Was she in her underthings or something? I'm sorry, but if she's going outside in the night in a "killing frost" in the Midwest, and she's not dressed for it, I don't want her in the gene pool regardless. She could look like (insert favorite supermodel here), and she'd deserve what she gets.

Slice open the belly of the beast and crawl inside to stay warm. Well, that's what Han Solo would have done.

Dreck indeed!