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Originally Posted by David
No, no, you're reductio ad absurding it. I just mean that the subject of the song (whether it's 1st, 2nd or 3rd person) isn't necessarily the writer.
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That's a given. Even with Stevie's writing, which is often discussed as if it's about her, I often think of the subject as a protagonist, a character, which may or may not be the songwriter.
Stevie once said she thought it was the same Sara in welcome to the room as in the other song and sometimes I think like that too. Today I was saying, that I believe the "how still my love" in EO17 is part of the same conversation as HSML, same woman haunting (or taunting) the same man's dreams. Whether that woman is actually Stevie or not is immaterial, because even if it is Stevie, you're getting different aspects or facets of her in different songs, different characters even if they have the same source and creator.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if some lines of
Oh Daddy are about Chris's relationship with Mick as band leader and others could be about Mick and Jenny and others could be just telling the story of a difficult love relationship, as a life observation that's not specific to any one person.
Michele