The image is clear in my memory, a bend in the road rising up above Enoch's old place in TN. Red recalls standing at the bend in the road, looking back down at the old farmhouse, and a woman standing on the porch - never to see that sight with his own bright eyes again. The home that was in view has now burned down, at the hands of hunters. Enoch and Parolee are buried side by side in the family graveyard right near that bend in the road.
The core of story actually took place in a different location at a different time, but the lyrics express how Red felt when he lost custody of his only natural daughter to her mother, just at the time she needed Red to be there for her the most.
We have each lost a child in one way or another, and despite what some cold-hearted pundits might say, at least some men grieve that loss. Red certainly knows that he has so grieved.
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