8th+-+Southern+Stories+-+Blue+Eyes+Crying+in+the+Rain


 * Blue eyes crying in the rain**

In the twilight glow I see her Blue eyes crying in the rain As we kissed goodbye and parted I know we'd never meet again

Love is like a dying ember Only memories remain Through the ages I'll remember Blue eyes crying in the rain

Now my hair has turned to silver All my life I've loved in vain I can see her star in heaven Blue eyes crying in the rain

Someday when we meet up yonder We'll stroll hand in hand again In a land that knows no parting Blue eyes crying in the rain

To the daughter this song could mean that the mom was mistreated by the men at the oyster bar and she could see her moms blue eyes (?) crying in a bad situation or the rain. Since my interpretation of the song is that this man lost the woman that he loved and he hangs on by remebering her blue eyes crying in the rain. So the girl is the "guy" and her mom is the "woman he lost" and the girl goes on by remebering the song her mom sang blue eyes crying in the rain. On the last verse of the song "Some day we will meet up yonder" obviously the woman died like the nararators mom and in the song the guy will meet her in heaven, but the girl belives that her mom became a mermaid so she will meet her someday in the "ocean."
 * mepeople:**

This song seems to reflect the feelings and internal battle of the narrator/daughter in “At the Other End of Nowhere.” The song is based around a memory, though the circumstances were bad in the memory, since the two people were leaving each other, the man only seems to remember the beauty of her ‘blue eyes crying in the rain.’ He has chosen to remember this one thing, and it brings him a little comfort to have such a beautiful last memory of her. The mother in the story used to always sing this song, so of course, the daughter would hear it. Hearing this song so much may have helped her in her internal decision (she might not have been aware of making it) to only remember the good things about her mother and the flood. This song may have inspired some of the magical imagery she used in her life, such as her mother becoming a mermaid instead of realizing that her mother was dead.
 * sprinkledillusions:**

This song/ poem "Blue eyes Crying in the Rain" is exactly how the daughter is feeling in this story. She did lose her loved one, the mom, in the flood but is so in shock, she has developed imagery that she's still alive but a mirmaid instead. She's saying that she will meet up with her one day and everything will be how it used to.
 * BHL3:**


 * Vereaux:** This song could be directly related to the ending when the daughter finds out that her mother is dead. This song is actually very good at portraying her inner feelings because on the inside, the daughter feels like she'll never see her again until she herself dies. With the first four lines, it could describe in a way what has happened to the daughter, her being seperated from her mother. The second set of lines could describe that the though she may be gone, to the daughter, all there is left is memories of her and how much she loved her mother. The third set of lines could mean that throughout the story, she's lived a fantasy and with her mother's passing, the daughter is trying to find her mother to keep that fantasy alive, even though the mother is dead. The last set deals with what could be the daughter finding her mother finally, being able to be with her in a place that could very well be Heaven.


 * Melanie: This song is related to the story, in a sense, that the girl had just lost her mother. She is mourning her lost and thinks that maybe in her mama's afterlife that she will be as free as a mermaid. This song represents the girl's thoughts that one day that her and her mother will one day be reunited again in heaven. And this time they will not be seperated again in this life or ever. With the line "love is like a dying ember," it means life is short and love is precious.**

hippiehippiehippo: Everyone experiences sadness in their lifetime, and people have different ways of dealing with their emotions. The mother in 'The Other Side of Nowhere' was hard working, and didn't complain about the challenges she faced. She sang her melancholy song while juggling a child and the challenges of responcible adulthood, and left her daughter with a wonderful memory of her mother. The daughter grew to love her mother's song, even if the mother didn't think of it so fondly. The song grew to be a type of security blanket to the child after she lost her single parent, and the narrator, just like her mother, perservered. She didn't complain of the things she lost during the storm, or minute details like many young children might do. She masked her sadness with bluegrass.

Danielle: To me this song means that the girl is remembering when her mother use to sing this song to her, and now that she's died and gone to heaven, she's looking back on the good times. For the girl to remember having her mother on earth with her, safe and sound, it meant the world. But as she remembers and its so painful for her to digest that her mother is truely gone, In my opinion when she accepts that her mother is in a better place it won't be as hurtful. When she stands out in the rain looking up in the sky, her blue eyes cry of grief for her mothers loss. For her having something as precious as time with her mother, maybe such as dancing in the rain with her, it hurts even more when the rain pours, and the girls blue eyes cry out for her happiness.

OneSongGlory14: When the mother sings this song, she may be speaking of her husband who left her, or died. She also could just be singing of everything that she has lost in her life, or the things that she has not lived up to in all her years. She doesn't like working in the reseraunt, but she does it anyway without complaining. She sings of her "life" other than the resteraunt (Which isn't much) that is lost. When the daughter sings this song, it is post to when the mother died. The girl narrator is probably singing of her mother's loss. Maybe the girl is just singing the song to comfort herself, to hear her mother's voice again inside her own soul and to remember the love her mother had for the song.

Chris: This story centered around a girl whose mother has died in the water. The song lyrics describe someone mourning a loss of someone else. In the song it talks about only memories remain and never meeting again. This could possibly mean that somone has passed and the only thing left of this certain person is memories. This is what the girl goes through after discovering her mother in the water. Also, the memories mentioned in the song can be good or bad. The story shows that life can be unfair by revealing that life was never good to her mother. She was mistreated and abused by her customers as she tries to serve them like nothing has happened, and she just gets killed. A Father is rarely mentioned and the mother sings this song in the story. The father could have died or left her(This seems quite common in this book), and he is no longer present either way. So this song relates to the stor in many ways, it can describe small events like the mother or father 'leaving' the daughter, or it could describe the entire story because someone is lost, and cannot come back.