Lyrics - New Songs

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Regina

I agree. I even remember her saying she knows certain songs are about her. And, in the context of the song (for argument's sake), it actually fits.

Oh I think Gone Too Far is about her. I just don't think if he forgot the words to any of his songs in concert that she'd be able to take over and sing any of his songs all the way through. I know he messed up on Goodbye Baby, but I think he probably knows her older songs pretty well. I really don't think she'd know the verses to GYOW. She just probably knows her parts.

And I was joking with Dee, but I actually do believe when he said "the silent surf" answers your call and "waiting for my ocean to rise", he's talking to someone who sleeps near the ocean.

In fact, it made me rethink his past songs like Treason and CAD. Maybe the water wasn't just a metaphor there either. Maybe it was a GPS location.

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Ya think? I bet she knows all of 'em - she definitely knows NGBA or at least that one line.

Reminds me of some SYW tour reviews I read when Stevie would stay onstage for Red Rover and be singing along even though she didn't sing on it and wasn't near the mic.

I've seen her mouth the words to Christine's songs. Well, particularly Over My Head.

Other little lyriics that caught my ear were "as they say, another great day." Ummm, who says that? Will? Actually, what they say is "another lonely day." To me, that ties Rock Away Blnd to both GYOW and to Great Day. And in GD the circumstances weren't very great either.

I also like in One Take when he says, "I turn it off, I turn it on." I don't think he thought of his own song Turn It On when he said that, because he's not the speaker in One Take, anyway, but I still liked it.

I like the Soldiers of Fortune line in SWS. What it says to me is that "we used to be able to give or express our love freely and now we have to steal it, conceal it." There's a theme of guiilt, shame and criminal commissions running through this album. Now, there was guilt in GOS, but it seemed more one-sided. In this album, the guilt and shame seems to be assigned to both of them. They are partners in crime.

Michele