edge of 17

[priestofnothing]

Originally Posted by danax6

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Hm, does thinking the song has elements of LB in it automatically make you a 'shipper'?

I agree with you in that some parts of the song are definitely very abstract and deep, but other parts are fairly literal and don't fit in with the idea behind the song that she has fed us. A lot of her songs are culminations of different things, whether they actually have anything to do with one another or not.

No, it may have parts of Lindsey in it....


so I went forth with a desire
to please you on the edge of seventeen....

but i think this was more of a desire to please you [her family] than please you to [lindsey when they were 17 years old]...

she met lindsey twice before fritz when she or he was 17.

how intense of a connection is that? compared to your family who has known you YOUR ENTIRE LIFE up until you are 32 when you recorded this song... I think the family/death connection was much more intense, considering uncle john was the first "family" death she ever experienced..... (as she states on the CV DVD) when you are first crossed with death of a family member it is INTENSE and I can see how this would inspire such a strong, forceful song as this)... not a silly teenage heartbreak experience.... grow up! I can't even remember the last names of some of the high school people who were so "close" to me - and no, I'm not *that* ancient* I'm only 40.....but the family death experience was much more intense and painful than any high school crush I ever had, and I think it was for Stevie too.