This Blue Rodeo song is about the early days of the group. They had been playing hundreds of “crappy gigs” a year, and the hopelessness of wondering if they would be successful and if it was worth it. The writers were specifically inspired to write this song after a gig in Detroit, where the stage was on one side of a river, and the audience was on the other, and every time a boat would pass by, the audience wouldn’t be able to see the band, and vice versa. They said it was one of the lowest lows they hit as a band, and they realized if it was a waste of time, at least they were going through it with the rest of the guys. This is “Lost Together”.
