Kate wrote: > i agree FTR has james all over it but that doesn't exclude blue from being > about him too, ...blue is a song about being IN a relationship as opposed to > being written in the wake of one (like FTR)... i bet she wrote blue during > her recording of blue or just before ..we know she was incredibly > emotionally fragile at this time which i can imagine her relationship with > james played a part in... > > i don't know anything about david blue or his relationship with joni but it > sure doesn't seem to be joni's style to be so obvious...(she wrote her song > to graham using his nickname willy, i see blue as her sad nickname for > james...whoever it is for, its a deeply hurting in the middle or heading > towards the end of a relationship love song....
I agree Kate - I've always thought Blue was about James too, despite the "facts" that FTR is the JT album, and that this song is really about David Blue. JT was a heavy drug user in those days (and for a long time afterwards) which I'm sure Joni found hard to deal with. I'd quote from his biography, but I've lent it to someone in Milwaukee ;o) - which is only fair, since she gave it to me in the first place! And there's the song he wrote which (to me) corroborates this theory: from Love Has Brought Me Around: When my sky was full of gray And my day was full of blue There was nothing I could do To see myself through Now my head is full of springtime And my heart is full of you Good-bye lonely blue It shall all come true Miss November I detect a frown Close your eyes and turn it upside down Remembering that Joni was born in November.... Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
