Stevie's Hidden Messages

[Mattress]

Or should that read "not-so-hidden".

She seems to do this a lot within her songs, and though it sometimes feels like she has a vocabulary limited to "link", "chain", "dream" "sea" "and" "the" "days" "go" "by"... (j/k), in most cases it's extremely effective, sometimes it may not even be intentional.

"Fireflies" references "Long Distance Winner", "Destiny" is "Enchanted", and "The Nightmare" is her "Glass Onion" (the 80's synth work has just now been drowned out by the sound of John Lennon rolling in his grave, j/k).

A bit trite, but I noticed one today that could have been her audio equivelant of a time bomb, lit in 1994 on "Love Is Like A River", and detinated 7 years later. It occured to me today that just after one of her most obvious references during "LILAR" ("Straight back to the sea"), a guitar riff *very* similar to that found on the 2001 rerecording of "Planets Of The Universe" has been inserted. Am I nuts? (with regard to this, no analysis of my overall mental required thankyouverymuch)