On 05 November 2000 02:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi Marian!!
>
> Great to hear from you, hope you are well, pal!! :-)
Thanks, Sue! Yes, I am well, and John's a lot better, so things are seeming
brighter these days.
> Although I completely understand what you are saying about the cerebral
> nature of Joni's lyrics, there are a couple of songs that I can never
> play all the way through without choking up. #1 on that list is Little
> Green, especially since the Kilauren revelation but even before that I
> had a hard time getting through it.
I never tried to learn Little Green. It always seemed too personal to Joni,
that I never felt I could sing it with enough true feeling. Maybe if I
tried to learn it, I would have a similar response.
> Also in that same vein is Morning
> Morgantown because I always think of it as an imaginary day out with the
> child she gave up.
Morning Morgantown does seem really sad when interpreted this way!
Anyway, I guess it's not really correct to make a statement like "Joni's
music is cerebral", since we are all so different and respond differently to
her music. A number of people have mentioned many other of her songs that
they respond to with tears. And, I realized after I sent my first question
about it, that there are at least four of Joni's songs that I have responded
to with tears on at least one occasion, but these four songs do not *always*
make me feel tearful, whereas there are certain songs sung by other artists,
or written by other people, that always make me cry if I hear them or try to
sing them. So for me, I still find Joni's music mostly cerebral, but I can
see that this is not true for other people. I totally love her songs - they
are like gorgeous jewels to me - I am not trying to diminish her in any way,
just trying to say that my response to her music is not a tearful one, for
the most part. It has been very interesting to read other people's
impressions.
> Also, since my daughter went to college, I COMPLETELY LOSE IT every time I
> play Sisotowbell Lane. Especially the last verse:
>
> Sisotowbell Lane
> Go to the city, you'll come back again
> To wade through the grain
> You always do, well sometimes you do
> Come back to the stars
> Sweet well water and pickling jars
> We'll lend you the car
> We always do, well sometimes we do
> We have a rocking chair
> Someone is always there
> Rocking rhythms while we're waiting
> With a candle in the window
> We always do, we wait for you
>
> WAAAAAHHH!!! That's a killer.
Well, as a mom myself, I can certainly relate to the sadness of your
daughter going away to college, Sue. I am sure I am going to be a basket
case when my girls go off to school. I would probably cry, too, singing
that song.
> Oh, yeah and then there's Magdalene
> Laundries. Maybe I'm just a MUSH.
I forgot about Magdalene Laundries! Yes, that is a very sad song,
especially:
"...they just stuffed her in a hole,
Surely to god you'd think at least some bell should ring!"
That line is hard to get through without losing it.
Marian
Vienna
