It was written in a time when we could not treat depression, he is talking about his wife and their life together and she took her life..and he is not getting over it. I do not see him as particularly abusive, more someone who did not know what to do with the depression and neither did doctors back than.
@delia17601 this was recorded in '68 and treatment for depression had been available for many many years but many people were not diagnosed properly or adequately back then. She may well have been depressed and committed suicide but that's not where I go when I think of this song. I think it's merely a man, a product of the times, that knows of no other way to express his sorrow at losing his wife. Hard to say what Bobby Goldsboro was thinking when he wrote it unless one were to actually ask him.
@delia17601 this was recorded in '68 and treatment for depression had been available for many many years but many people were not diagnosed properly or adequately back then. She may well have been depressed and committed suicide but that's not where I go when I think of this song. I think it's merely a man, a product of the times, that knows of no other way to express his sorrow at losing his wife. Hard to say what Bobby Goldsboro was thinking when he wrote it unless one were to actually ask him.
It was written in a time when we could not treat depression, he is talking about his wife and their life together and she took her life..and he is not getting over it. I do not see him as particularly abusive, more someone who did not know what to do with the depression and neither did doctors back than.
@delia17601 this was recorded in '68 and treatment for depression had been available for many many years but many people were not diagnosed properly or adequately back then. She may well have been depressed and committed suicide but that's not where I go when I think of this song. I think it's merely a man, a product of the times, that knows of no other way to express his sorrow at losing his wife. Hard to say what Bobby Goldsboro was thinking when he wrote it unless one were to actually ask him.
@delia17601 this was recorded in '68 and treatment for depression had been available for many many years but many people were not diagnosed properly or adequately back then. She may well have been depressed and committed suicide but that's not where I go when I think of this song. I think it's merely a man, a product of the times, that knows of no other way to express his sorrow at losing his wife. Hard to say what Bobby Goldsboro was thinking when he wrote it unless one were to actually ask him.