> Little Bird wrote: > From "Otis and Marlena" - "She taps her glass with an emory file, > watching three rings in the sun..."
<snip> > But, I'm sure Joni didn't consider any of that astronomical stuff when > writing the song. She probably realized that you could sometimes see a > couple of rings around the sun and thought it was a neat image. And it > is! Or Marlena was sitting in the sun wearing three rings on her hand, or she was watching someone with three rings. Or someone was juggling three rings on the beach, or..... There are any number of interpretations of Joni's lyrics, and any one of them might be "right". Only Joni knows for sure, but as she has said in the past "Forget about what it means to me, what does it mean to YOU?" Hell
