Red Rover

[Peestie]

I've got a few things to say/questions about this song. First of all, I love it. One of my favourite Lindsey tracks now. To me it sounds very sad and the lyrics seem so tragic. The "anyone at all..." part just gets a big reaction from me, possibly because of the intensity of it.

But the lyrics... what are they about? I had never really analysed them but to me it always seemed some sort of tragedy, maybe about someone dying or something. Like I say, I never really studied them so I'm not sure. On the Soundstage DVD Lindsey says it's a song about how there might be gods experimenting on the human race and thinking it's all gone wrong. I can't see any way that this connects to the lyrics. Anyone have any ideas or thought? It has me baffled

Last of all, any guitarists out there be able to help me work out what he's playing as the low melody (i.e. with his thumb) at the part that starts "Anyone at all..." in the Soundstage version? Just the first couple of bars of this section to get me going, please (I'm working with Db Gb Db Fb Bb Db tuning)

Cheers