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Sep 30, 2008
This song is basically about the West and how industrialization and urbanization is taking away the past freedoms regularly allotted to Americans. The modern American West has higher suicide rates than the rest of America combined. Because of this Western mentality combined with an urban atmosphere, "Cowboy Dan" is confined to alienating himself, firing his rifle, disobeying and discrediting god, and basically becoming an apathetic man in general. "I didn't move to the city, the city moved to me" is an incredibly deep lyric when analyzed. Cowboy Dan metaphorically represents the modern-day, apathetic, alienated Westerner looking for only inner and natural peace and freedom for happiness. Great job, mm.