This is the 6th song I've found tonight as I have gone through this "Songs" section of the 'Tow looking for songs that have not yet had their own thread/discussion established. I have started threads on 5 other songs thus far, going in order of the albums listed (chronologically), and in order of the way the songs appear sequentially on "Songs in Red and Gray", this is the first of 3 on this album that have not yet garnered their own thread.

I just read the lyrics (and of course I've listened to the song a few times) and found them to be quite beautiful. It's a nice celebration of timelessness and memory (something she's QUITE good at, especially considering such fairly recent truly genius works such as "Rosemary" and "Anniversary", and I certainly look forward to more songs in similar veins.) It's a really beautiful, upbeat song. Perhaps just a little bit wistful and slightly laced with sorrow if you read in-between the lines (and if I'm reading through them correctly), but then again that's why I'm starting this thread, to see what OTHER people think.

Discuss -

-M

an autobiographical song which transcends its own state by becoming a song about two people, apparently apart through age and size, who connect through the language of their bodies. the idea of a game is here again (see thread on "solitaire"): "we were in costume/and this was a game". and also here is the belief that the body is the vessel for what needs or wants expression [see thread on "those whole girls (run in grace)"]: "something will shine through the body/if you give it a chance".

i agree that this song is "a nice celebration of timelessness and memory", and i also can see why you say it is "a little bit wistful", but i don't feel any sorrow in it whatsoever. there is a reliving of memories in it and a willingness to share them.

"Dies slowly he who does not share his emotions, joys and sadness"
(pablo neruda)

"It is what has not happened to one
that determines the silence"
(pablo neruda)

"Love is your blood - not another."
(cesare pavese)

"I need more grace than I thought."
(rumi)

(with thanks to all who have revived the "other poets" corner recently)

happy holidays to *everyone* on the undertow.

love,
fátima

ps: i forgot patrick melody's contribution to the "other poets" corner. sorry for that.

"Lately the radar's
in wonderful tune
blame it on sunspots
or nodes of the moon

I can sense some kind of sorrow too. This was a game for Suzanne. Was it a game for Priscilia? People are looking for any kind of outlet for their dreams as hard as they can, but result may be strange sometimes. Some may wonder, some may feel sorrow.

be well
Anna Maria K.

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"like a shadow, I am and I am not"