How original are Stevie's lyrics?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

At the very least, I find it interesting to see what has inspired both Stevie and Lindsey's songs. And, maybe the songs were actually more inspired by literature - or "public domain" than their actual lives/relationships! That would be so hysterical if all these years people have been trying to decipher their lyrics to fit into a "who's it about" scenario and yet they were just ripping off some dead poet.

And I hear Poe's Dream Within a Dream in Lindsey's Say Goodbye too.

Susan Dickinson had a poem called Castaway Dreams that I found when I learned the song title from Lindsey's song Cast Away Dreams. I had not heard UTS yet. I only saw the tracklist. I was thinking that Lindsey must have come across this poem (Hyssop) in some Dickinson family collection when he wrote CAD. The subject matter is not the same, but the title is rather singular.

CAH said she used to look through poetry to find lyric suggestions for Lindsey. Of course, CAH was such a scholar, she probably spent the bulk of her time curled up in a chair reading poetry anyway. . .

Michele