Discover the story of the song > Across the Great Divide – Nanci Griffith

The song talks about the protagonist who feels like time has passed by so quickly. She has been going through old things and memories of the past. She finds herself on a mountainside where she hears an owl calling but it disappears, just like time did. The chorus talks about how the past is gone and now she's in a different place, across a great divide. The song ends with a hopeful note of a new day coming, just like the darkness rolling away.