My conflicted understanding is that "Blue" was written about Graham Nash, because of reading somewhere that "Blue" was Nash's nickname and the line, "You know I've been to sea before, crown and anchor me or let me sail away" was Joni's ultimatum to Nash for marriage. I've never been able to reconcile that interpretation having been given,"we don't need no piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true" just three tracks previously. There's a tragic vein (no pun intended) that begins around here concerning heroin addiction, "songs are like tatoos","underneath the skin an empty space to fill in", "acid booze and ass, needles guns and grass", and later more overtly as "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." I don't know if Nash, like Taylor had this demon to contend with and I don't know much about David Blue, but this may turn out to be a continuing mystery. And I'm okay with that. CC "Sometimes the light can be so hard to find." -- JM _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
