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Originally posted by cliffdweller
what about "Thrown Down?" Judging from the lyrics to that song it seems to me that it was Lindsey who got that speech not Stevie. He seemed to be pursing her and TD was her way of letting him down easy.
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First off, far be it from me to say that I know Stevie enough to be able to put all of her songs into some logical, linear timeline...
(Did I just put "logical" and "Stevie" in the same sentence?
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But, if my read on FFG is accurate, maybe TD was put down while she thought he was pursuing her and maybe SHE was having doubts! I know I was once in a relationship where I had doubts about the guy and I wasn't sure if it could work out...and then he broke it off with ME! I was livid as well as heartbroken.
Of course putting it all in this light makes the lyric, "You say you're sorry/ now you should walk away/ but it's so overwhelming/ you have nothing left to say" quite interesting!
Actually (and I'm forming this as I'm typing this) I always wondered about "You can sit outside his door and wait/ well you can dedicate your pain to him". If the song is about him chasing her, why is it HER pain outside HIS door? MAYBE this song is her reflecting on this whole thing (after the anger of FFG) saying to herself, "Stevie, what were you thinking?"
The "He fell for her" bit and the "barricade" bits were real enough at the time (and she thought SHE held the cards), but it isn't how it was. Am I making sense?
Then there's the new lyrics, the ones NOT written during The Dance: they've shaken their faith in each other (too many harsh words no doubt), and now he's going home. "Faith is a hard thing to hold on to/ something inside you says I don't have to...you do what you want to"...oh yeah, that's about Lindsey all right, but it's got nothing to do with his music!
ONCE AGAIN I've gone on too long. And of course this is all just interpretation and I can't prove a lick of it, but one thing I'm sure we can all agree on is that there are no doubt a million little pieces of SnL's long relationship that have affected the course of their relationship that we may never know about!
