Waylon Jennings: "It don't make any sense"

[Mike 03]

Have you ever spent hours trying to figure out the meaning of some work of art (movie, song, piece of writing) only to have the artist come along at some point and say the work of art is either meaningless or is completely superficial and that looking for hidden meaning is pointless?

Here Waylon Jennings sings his great, rather ambiguous (even mysterious) "Waymore Blues" and in the brief exchange that follows says, "..I sang it to him as a joke...because it didn't make no sense. It don't make any sense. I mean, it does, but it don't."

Lyrics

Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain
Around the curve come a passenger train
Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan
Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone.
Been a long time gone, a long time gone.
If you want to get to heaven, gotta D-I-E
You gotta put on your coat and T-I-E
want to get the rabbit out of the L-O-G
You gotta make a cold motion like D-O-G
Like D-O-G, like D-O-G, yeah.
Well, I got a good woman, what's the matter with me?
What makes me want to love every woman I see?
I was trifling when I met her now I'm trifling again
And every woman she sees looks like the place I came in.
Looks like the place I came in place I came in.

I got my name painted on my shirt
I ain't no ordinary dude
I don't have to work
I don't have to work


The line that really puzzles me is: And every woman she sees looks like the place I came in.
Looks like the place I came in place I came in. I had a Freudian interpretation of this line but I guess I can toss that in the garbage.



I don't know why I find this song so intriguing; I'm not that much into country music. But I heard this song one night maybe three years ago on local radio and thought, "This sounds deep", so I looked into it and tried to figure out the meaning.

But: "It don't make any sense."