FWIW question...

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Aha! Rick is a very good candidate. That's excellent. Michele

If it's Tom, Mike or Rick wouldn't the lyric have been "You said, 'even if I left my wife...'"?

Originally Posted by michelej1

So, what do you think the chorus means?

Usually, when you say "even if" there's an event that follows, like cause and non-effect.

For instance you would say, "Even if I skip the dance, my feet will still hurt."

Here, the guy says even if I left my house, packed my car and drove to get you with good intentions . . . WHAT, what won't happen even if he does do all that? They don't finish the sentence.

When she ends with "for what it's worth," that's a nonsequitur. Is it, "I started with good intentions, for what it's worth . . . " something is not panning out, even if he tries.

I don't understand it, but I like the unfinished story. The way she's telling us and not telling us...

I just don't think these FWIW lyrics fit Lindsey in the slightest. I mean we know he and Stevie drove in a car together, but that's about the only vague similarity between them and the people in this song that I can see.

Michele

I like the unfinished aspect to it too.

As far as the car thing - that's the only similarity we know of, but that's like saying they didn't have sex because I didn't see them. But, I'm figuring they did.

Seriously, though along the same lines as one of your recent posts about relationships and the fascination of couples - that's my thought here. Their relationship is so complex and complicated we don't know what might have transpired. We know they fight/fought. But, we also know they were in love and still have a lot of love for one another. It's strange, yes. But, can we say oh this doesn't sound like Lindsey because he's not a comfort to her. Well, I don't think it's fair to say he's never been a comfort to her. I know that when they are working together they have huge differences of opinion. I don't know that on a personal level they don't exhibit genuine care for one another. They seem to talk a lot and still get each other's opinions on stuff so there must be a reason for that. For instance, didn't you say you thought of him for In Your Dreams? In that song the guy is really comforting her and calming her nerves and her fears...

Anyway, I don't know who it's about - Lindsey just fit in with the stories I heard.