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Originally posted by kristin
[B]
~Nomad/Candlebright~
"For no special reason
I am leaving you for awhile tonight
I'm flying far above you
Still I love you
You make things right"
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Okay, so to start off with, I want to say that I think that in this song, the person she is talking could be Lindsey, however, I think she wrote this more to herself than for anyone else. I think that this is basically an earlier version of Wild Heart....Stevie has a wandering spirit, with wild dreams and a wild heart. Her mind roams endlessly, and therefore she has trouble staying in one place because she is always searching to reach the next level, whatever that may be. However, bottom line is she needs love, and likes to know it's there when she needs it. Soooo......in this first few lines, I think she's saying to this person(perhaps Lindsey) that she feels she needs to go and do something, take care of things, for her own sake, and this may mean leaving them for awhile, but she needs to do it, without explanation. It's just something she needs to do; maybe sort of a reaffirmationof her personal freedom and independence..."I'm flying far above you" is sort of her "spirit in flight".....but no matter what she chooses, she will always love him, but don't make her explain herself because "where is the reason, don't blame it on me, blame it on my wild heart...".
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"I've been with you before
I'll be with you again
I'll come back for more..Yeah
The story has a strange ending
Oh..Oh..Yeah.."
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Here is where she's saying that no matter how independent or "flighty" she may be in her heart and her mind, she still needs love, and to know she has it. So, she'll always "come back for more".....I agree with what Alex said on this, that it isn't normal for a couple to break-up and still "go back for more"...and therefore there is a strange ending to their break-up. Not one that you would usually expect.
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"Well, you know me
I'm a nomad
I can't feel bad
About the way I am
I've been rolling around
My whole life"
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Here she is again explaining her restless nature...her wild heart, her spirit in flight, her basic attitude of fearlessness that she takes in life. And that's it, that's just the way she is, and no matter what, she is not going to feel bad for that and not going to feel she needs to really explain herself to anyone. She is always "rolling around" searching for new things, never settling on one thing, because that would narrow her options in life. It's her gypsy spirit....and maybe that's why her career fits her so well, because she's always able to grow, and learn, and move around, and there's always new things to inspire her....it's what she'd alwyas known,as Alex said, since she moved around as a little girl.
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"You're my candle bright
In the window
You guide me back again
And I come when you shine
You are not my friend..No
But I am something of a dreamer
I am something of a dreamer
I am something of a dreamer
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Here she is again, emphasizing the fact that no matter how restless and fearless she may be, there is always that need for love in her life....someone for her to go back to, that knows her and know's how to guide her home...maybe Lindsey was that person for her. This person seems like a very steady thing in her life, and that is why it is so important to her. Sometimes, maybe she needed someone or something to bring her wild heart down to the ground again and sort of bring her back to reality...back home. This could be Lindsey...when she says "I come when you shine", it refers to the whole candle reference, but this also makes me think of when they are on stage together and how she said that it always brings them back to when they were in love, and so maybe this line could be a reference to that, the magic between them that always brings them back...."I would be your only dream, you're shining autumn ocean crashing..."
However, if this was about Lindsey, then even if he was that person to her, there was also the other end of it which is that they were having trouble together, and he was feeling more like a lover and a musical partner than a friend....and she immediately goes back to her dreaming to escape from the reality of that. And in being a dreamer, she sees hope for the situation, and like she said sometime, I can't remember when, that she always tried to find like the light at the end of the tunnel in her songs, by ending with a positive note...and these last lines are just that...being a dreamer, she hopes that one day she can find a friend in their relationship.
And she did
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Sorry for my long-windedness...but since I was the one who posted this song, I wanted to be as thorough as I could...hope you guys enjoyed, and hope MORE PEOPLE POST THEIR THOUGHTS!!!
**kristin**