The Ghosts are Gone

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by seekerj

So help me out. Who are the lost girls? Why plural? Who are the boys who are gone? Why plural? What do the lost girls and the boys have to do with each other? What the @#$% is this song about????!!!!

I didn't understand it when I heard it, it just sounded cool (to paraphrase Chris' take on Stevie's lyrics) and I haven't been able to reconcile the actual words with what Stevie says the song is about.

To me, although I don't think about vampires when I hear Moonlight, I do think of ghosts, vampires, maybe even zombies when I hear GAG. I think of the undead (or the unfinished) and as we move from verse to verse, I imagine them queuing up to be crossed over into the afterlife. Here you have these lost boys and they're gone and then, up next, you have lost girls and they finally disappear. It's like they were wandering and now they're all standing in line to find resolution and, one by one, they do and they're free to disappear in peace afterwards.

So, that's what I imagine in my head when I hear it and it doesn't bother me that it doesn't make sense. I actually ask myself more questions about FWIW and why "even if" and the good intentions and the non sequitur, for what it's worth. There's a suggestion that sometimes his intentions aren't good . . . that he has to struggle to keep them honorable. And if the outcome would still be that it wouldn't work, why doesn't she say that, instead of trailing off?

Those gnaw at me more than the GAG words, but in a good way. I think the questions make FWIW better. The GAG questions just make it fun and zany.

Michele