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while looking up a song from season 2 episode "Chuck Versus the Dream Job", i fell in love with this song, and then found on reddit a "synopsis" of sorts, about the song AND the show...... it is long, but i though very good...

the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chuck/comments/2t0fxx/some_thoughts_about_luisas_bones_is_this_song_a/



now, the article:

Luisa's Bones is the song that plays prominently when Chuck grasps a clue given by his father, realizes Roark has built an Intersect, and decides to infiltrate Roark Industries (S2E19 - Dream Job). In both melody and lyrics the song is an attention getter, not background music. So what is the connection between this scene and Luisa's Bones? (See the lyrics at the end of this post.)


Who is Luisa, and why is there is a song about her at this juncture? Well, drop one letter and the name is Lisa -- we know who that is. And that's who this is about.
One of the central themes of the series is the romance between Chuck and Sarah. It's not simply a crush, it's the central relationship of their lives. Both Chuck and Sarah are alienated from themselves. They're each painfully aware that they don't know themselves, and that is the source of a fundamental unease in the world for each of them. What makes their attraction so powerful is that they are each helping the other to realize who they really are and to become their real selves. That is the ultimate outcome of the highest form of love.


To get to that place of self-knowledge, they have to accomplish some difficult practical tasks. This moment is the start of a long quest in which Chuck gradually uncovers the details of his family history and his place in it. Only later do we realize how much of it is about Sarah and her transformation. Her arrival at self-knowledge is a more difficult rebirth because she lacks what turns out to be the solidity of Chuck's past and family. Hers was all lies, an act. Chuck's quest is actually the vehicle for Sarah to ultimately find herself.
Back to the song. The beginning and ending of the song seem out of sequence. The song opens with

We came,
by the rising of the river
while the last verse starts with
and we will wait,
till the rising of the river

Is the rising of the river in the past or the future?

But the temporal dissonance is key. It foreshadows the ending of the series on the beach. At that point Sarah has lost five years of memories of the most important events of the period when she had come to know herself and to be who she really is. Over that time the two of them had washed away her bones and the lies surrounding her. But then she is back where she started ... or is she?

Superficially she might seem to have reverted back to the same person she was before, but deep inside something in her knows "she is soon going home." She needs a second rebirth. And here the song says "you take the road and I'll take the river" which echoes the final scene's "rivers and roads, rivers til I reach you." (S5E13 - Goodbye) Then they just need to wait ...


That's why the series ending is so apt. Many fans in their grief feel they have to believe that Sarah gets her memories back just the way they were and everything is tidily wrapped up, as they hope will be shown in a forthcoming Chuck movie. But the way the series left it is deeper than that. She can't go back, she must go forward. Despite what was lost they both realize they have an essential connection that is the source of their trust and, with that, the ability to move forward. That deep connection is more vital than any particular events.


Back to the episode. Why the appearance of Luisa's Bones at this point? This is really the start of their journey together. They have realized they are connected. Sarah has risked her entire career in locating Chuck's father and bringing Chuck to him. When Chuck hesitates outside the trailer, Sarah briefly caresses his neck in a touchingly intimate gesture of encouragement that is the first explicit physical demonstration of their deep connection on a personal level. (As opposed to previous incidents of physical contact that were just manifestations of sexual tension.)


Now, through his father's clues, Chuck feels compelled to take the initiative for the first time. He discards his passivity and starts to take control of his life. It's the first time we see Chuck decked out in tactical gear. He embarks on a mission to protect the Intersect, the first of many that will also reveal his family history. Before he can get started he actually has to take out Casey with tranq darts (jabbing the third dart home by hand!). But as the song implies, it ends with Sarah, because her journey will be harder.


This then is the beginning of Chuck's active role in the journey that ends back on the beach,

because

the river will rise
when the summer monsoon rain,
comes to wash the old remains,
past the beach into the ocean,
for to carry us away,


The other lyrics. The middle verses are a bit cryptic. They are not in temporal sequence, because what is happening is beyond time and recurrence.


"She lays by" does not refer to a body lying in a grave. A lay-by is a resting place by the side of a road - so "she lays by the ride" that she embarks on in the next verse. "Firing anvils" are explosions. (Powder ignited between two anvils, shooting one of them into the air.) The image of anvils also relates to the forging of metal suggested in the next verse.


The "house with cast iron gates" is the apartment building in Echo Park, where everyone ends up living. Here she pauses in her journey to wait for her killers and pay revenge. Does this allude to the episode where she is trying to kill him? (S5E12 - Sarah ) But is Chuck her killer? His influence did lead to the end of the old Sarah. Is it Quinn, who stole her memories? I don't really know. But I suspect that dealing with her killers is what she has been doing for the last five years. Or is it fifty years?


"Underneath red candles" is reminiscent of their first night together (S1E08 - Truth).
Sarah's journey is where "she goes for a ride" and "on these hills they are blind" because as close as Chuck gets to her, he and the others can't see what she needs to complete her journey.

She must see it for herself. She searches in the mine, but it takes smelting of iron and forging of steel to get past a half century of lies. Soon she'll go home bringing the fire, but she needs Chuck to bring what she can't make for herself - the jewels, which represent truth because they are found in their natural state and only need to be polished. (Although maybe it’s the reverse, because whoever brings the jewels takes the river, and Sarah losing her memories is accompanied by “She tows the line up the river,” another Crooked Fingers song . (S5E11 – Bullet Train))


And so … When the time comes, the old remains will be washed away, not like before, but this time past the beach into the ocean where they will be set free, and we will be carried away. Past the beach where the journey began. She is reborn yet again. And she will become more than she ever was the first time, gaining more than she has lost.
Thanks for reading this post. Maybe some of it seems like a stretch, but I'm curious about anyone else's insights.


Luisa's Bones

We came,
by the rising of the river,
on a river with no name,
in the summer monsoon rain,
to wash away Luisa's bones,
from the ghost who guards her grave.
She lays by the ride of firing anvils,
in a house with cast iron gates,
and underneath red candles waits,
for her killers to come home and,
for a fine revenge to pay.
She goes for a ride,
on these hills they are blind,
copper steel iron ore,
fifty years maybe more,
searching in the mine,
one half century of lies,
you can see on the horizon
she is soon going home.
You take the road I'll take the river,
you bring the fire I'll bring the jewels,
and in the evening underneath the roaring sky,
we will meet and wait and pray for the monsoon.
And we will wait,
till the rising of the river,
when the summer monsoon rain,
comes to wash the old remains,
past the beach into the ocean,
for to carry us away,
setting free Luisa's bones from,
from the ghost who guards her grave.