FWIW question...

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by michelej1

By that, I meant that I feel she does derive comfort from him, but doesn't think or express their relationship in terms of him being comforting.

I'm reminded of Mick's book when he says that after Lindsey left the band Stevie didn't know how to be onstage without him there. She was so used to having him around. I think Lindsey's presence on stage with her all those years was comforting to her, but I don't think she would tenderly acknowledge him as being a comfort. I think of someone who you aren't mushy with, just because to express that openly makes you feel vulnerable and needy, when you prefer to be more detached in your dealings with them, because the emotion actually runs so deep.

During the Reno fight, when she was crying, she looked at Lindsey first, but Mick is the one who came and hugged her and then afterwards Lindsey went over and hugged her too, but in a way, to me, their strongest communication occurred when they were staring at each other across the stage than it did when he eventually embraced her. She probably derived more strength from his eyes than his arms.

In the end, I don't perceive the relationship in black or white shades.
Personally, when she told him his songs were perfected and polished like cloisonne boxes and they didn't compare to her rougher songs and he said don't worry that he'd fix that, I think those kind of words did make her feel secure, even though in one sense, I felt it was almost an insult and that the implication was that her songs did need a lot of work, but he was up to the task.

I think being the pale dragon boy always in the background is being a pillar and a comfort, but not the kind she'd describe in FWIW terms.


Michele

I don't think FWIW is about Lindsey, but I'm just curious what you thought about the verses of In Your Dreams ( a song which I personally took entirely to be about Lindsey) then, regarding Lindsey being a comfort: you calm my nerves when you hold my hand, it feels so fine.. you calm my fears down.. etc.

Also - I can't say I'm familiar with the Reno instance, or either it's just not ringing a bell at this moment. What was that?