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Originally Posted by bluecrystal
does anyone know what this song is about? who she wrote it about? and does anyone have alternate takes or demos of the song?
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Stevie didn't know what to say, & wasn't sure which card to play, because her dream hadn't ended, but it had gone away. But Stevie's fingers alit upon the ivory keys (of the piano, presumably) & began to begin to write a song, which for some reason or other reminded her of a running timber wolf (canis lupus) -- or one beginning to begin to run. I guess either one would be just as good. At one point, Stevie was in the wind -- possibly on her balcony with her arms outstretched & her chiffon blowing wildly, or maybe just sitting down so the dirt wouldn't get in her eyes -- & it was during that time that Stevie found something she had lost. What was this lost thing? A dream.
This occurred during or immediately after Stevie (or the Stevielike girl in the song) spent several hours waiting for someone -- or something (like a dream). This person -- or thing, or dream, or running wolf -- was very strong but fleeting.
Later, Stevie remembered just how good it was! (which can only mean sex)
So maybe she remembered a sexual encounter (in the shadow of my shadow is an especially sexual image, akin to Dame Edna's reference to her dead husband's member -- "Norm's needle," she calls it -- & how others visiting the cemetery where Norm is buried met "under Norm's needle").
It's also possible that Stevie did NOT have a sexual encounter (I know, I know) ... & remembered only her having had a memory of such & such, perhaps not sure whether the sex was real or whether the memory of the sex was even real -- or even whether the dream about the sex (or the dream about the memory of the sex) was real.
But, then, what is real?
And, that, my friend, is "Straight Back."