"Valentine"?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Papillon

I LOVE Straight Back, but I've often wondered if Christine ever rolls her eyes when she sings with Stevie on these lyrics:
"Fingers find the ivory
Keys and a song
Begins to begin
Like a wolf on the run.."
I do understand "In the shadow of my shadow" but the "wolf on the run" lines I do not get.
I wonder if anyone here does & can enlighten me? And no, I'm not being sarcastic. I don't understand, but I want to.

Chris and Stevie's harmony on that line is haunting.

Stevie is a pure poet. She has a poetic license like all poets. I love the wolf on the run line. What do you picture in your head when you hear that? For me, I picture a lone wolf running in a dark forest with a full moon. A wolf is about independence. A wolf running is very aggressive, wild, and fast. A wolf running also would not go directly anywhere and can deviate its trail. A running wolf is also after something.
When writing a song.... Stevie is independent..... it happens fast...... and she deviates back and forth. She is definitely after something.... her fingers finding the ivory keys and a song is beginning....like a wolf on the run.
So to me, the line makes perfect sense. But this is only in my world. Each person has their own interpretation.
Many Stevie fans bond because we understand eachother. Her fans will never leave her because of this bond. Sometimes I can relate so much to her writing it feels like the song was written for me. One time on her 1989 tour a "journalist" wrote that Stevie's solo career was running out of steam and it used her lyrics from Rooms on Fire to make the point.
He wrote:
"Somewhere out in the back of your mind
comes your real life and the life that you know
it seemed like to be one of those same old things
it seemed to be the only thing left out in the light'
He wrote: What? That make no sense.
To me, those lines make perfect sense. I understand them completely.