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Originally Posted by CADreaming
I call that peace keeping.
I don't know, I just would never classify him that way. He always seems to be the one willing to stir something up in fact, not afraid to steamroll in order to accomplish the vision. "You're not like other people, you do what you want to."
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Yes, I wasn't talking about a kumbaya kind of peace and I don't think the song is talking about that kind of peace either, which is why it uses the war metaphor. I think it envisions a peace through struggle and fight and force or force
fulness. I mean an ironic version of peace.
As far as whether she calms any feathers, I don't think so. I see Mick doing that more. But yes, she
thinks she does, definitely. I mean even 20 years ago she was talking about how she fought so hard to keep the band together when she could have left and pursued a solo career. So, yes, I know she thinks she's a peacekeeper.
What I think more of is a kind of situation in DR. Now, she didn't think she was doing anything divisive to Lindsey in that scene with Karen, but
he thought she was. When she told him that Karen was dead honest, she probably thought she was trying to talk him down after he said that people were pointing fingers at them, but I think he saw her as using her people to keep a road block between them. And I think he
still sees her that way today. I don't think she has a calming effect on him at all. I think he thinks he's trying to keep things together. He and Mick.
But she thinks, yes totally she thinks she's peace queen ... I mean even the way she handled Sheryl Crow, you could see she thought she was mollifying Lindsey. I mean the way she introduced the idea of Sheryl in the first place was designed to reduce frictionand then in the end after it was all over, she was serving as sort of a mediator between Sheryl and Lindsey in the public spat. But beginning or end, I don't think he thought she was keeping anything together or calm when it came to Sheryl Crow. He thought he was being hassled.
Michele