Things Just Cannot Grow

Mina posted recently connecting and MGMT song to Cormac McCarthy's The Road.  Her connections made so much sense, I had never thought that The Road could be connected to a modern electric-ish song. I thought this was such an original idea for a reading blog, I decided to try and do something similar. Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles made  a song called Winter Song which also relates to Cormac McCarthy's novel.
The song begins slowly with the repetition of sounds, much like the beginning of The Road with the repetition of words and monochromatic landscape.
With "My voice a beacon in the night/My words will be your light/to carry you to me," Winter Song calls to mind the dreary nights that the man and the boy experience on their journeys, and the way the two main characters keep each other alive by giving the other a reason to live: by being the other's "light" in the gloom of the dead world. 
The next verse, "they say that things just cannot grow/beneath the winter snow/or so I have been told. They say were buried far/just like a distant star/I simply cannot hold" relates very directly to McCarthy's novel. Nothing is able to "grow beneath the winter snow" that covers the dead world of McCarthy's novel. The world appears "buried far, just like a distant star" that has died and been lost while the rest of the universe moves along as normal. 
The following verse, "I still believe in summer days./The seasons always change/and life will find a way. Ill be your harvester of light/and send it out tonight/so we can start again" connects to the hope that the little boy feels for a better life after they reach the coast, or even just the little boy that he thought he saw in one of the cities. This verse is in contrast to the feelings of the man, who has little hope for a future in which "the seasons always change" and little faith that "life will find a way" yet doesn't have the heart to break the spirit of his son. 
The singers continue, "the storm is coming soon/it rolls in from the sea" which connects to the fact that the man and boy and heading towards the sea, but they don't know if what they find there will have positive or negative outcomes for them. 
Between verses and at the end of the song a single phrase is continuously repeated: "is love alive?" This is quite a question for Cormac McCarthy's novel because, although everything in the world is dead, the love between the man and his son is most definitely alive.