SYW, best album of all time?

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by elle

ending with "can you hear me Annie?" by all accounts if about anybody specific Rodeo would be about Anne Heche.

Yes, I'm aware of that interpretation and, for sure, a lot of it may be about Anne. However, I find THESE (and a few others, to be honest, esp. the last verse) lyrics quite curious in terms of a set of VERY similar lyrics of Stevie's and they, to me, bely quite an interesting 'coincidence'.

We never took quite enough chances
We never had quite enough time
I did about a thousand dances
But nothing would change your mind

Say you will, say you will give me one more chance
At least give me time to change your mind
That always seems to heal the wounds, if I can
Get you to dance

"Give us a song but don't live what you sing
Say what you mean but please don't mean a thing

I think I might wander underground
I think I might wander underground
They heard fifteen seconds and that was enough
The idea was new but the business was rough
I think I might wander underground
I think I might wander underground

I go to my lover we lay on our bed
Did I sell my heart for the dreams in my head?
I think I might wander underground"

underground as away from the big business large music labels.

Yes, mostly. I just find that he probably doesn't JUST use 'underground' as a business related concept. He does more so here but not everywhere. So yes, primarily the underground idea here is related to doing his artistic work thing under the radar, or underground, if you will. I just find the 'did I sell my heart for the dreams in my head?' quite an interesting idea in terms of BOTH the personal and the professional.

You're the queen of the underground
Never leaving a clue

I took a trip out of town / A hundred years underground
And had to swim across the sea / Oh, when you were my baby

Black angel can't be alone
Love runs deeper from the underground

i have Cast Away Dreams interpretation a bit different from most other people... while looking at everything through the lens of a star-crossed love relationship is romantic, what seems to be a constant and most important thing to LB is music, his art and getting it out there through his musical career (remember young SN complaining he'd rather sleep with his guitar than her ?). repeated use of a word visionary, plans, and everything that you listed in your bullets above to me points towards him finally letting go of any plans to become commercially successful solo artist - we were discussing that in this thread:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpo...81&postcount=5

Mmm, yes, I've read that before. I disagree, for the most part, sorry. I don't think I purposely look at everything through some misplaced romantic ideal but I DO think that it makes FAR more sense seeing this song in terms of the personal and not the professional. Although Lindsey has written plenty of songs about the world in general and the business in specific, I don't think this is one of them. He directly addresses a person in these lyrics and talks about dreams and faith and plans that two people have had that can be no longer.

I would say that yes, his artistic vision and work IS a constant and important thing to him (though not necessarily the most, actually, anymore). I also think it's fair to say from both interviews and songs that STEVIE is a constant and important thing for him too, in terms of an important relationship in his life as well as an inspiration for lyrics. The whole deal with the 'plans' is in reference to having to go away and not being able to stay - he addresses this to another PERSON. His dreams and faith that he's having to put behind him are about another PERSON (Magic One). The choices being made are being made with another PERSON, a person he wants to still dream of him. Why would KRISTEN be getting into some huge argument with him one night on the SYW tour about him not being willing to give up an obsession about being commercially successful in his solo work (which while I'm sure he would have appreciated really didn't and doesn't seem like a dream/obsession to him, to be honest...)? I'm sorry, it doesn't really gel for me. Kristen had to leave so he could be alone and MOURN that? There may be elements of that idea in there but, truthfully, that song makes far more sense to me if that obsession isn't a 'something' but a 'someone'.