Bob asked:
>>> Question: To what is Joni referring when she repeats "the ghostly
garden grows"? Does she mean the world in general as a ghostly garden?
Funny then, in Woodstock she says we've got to get ourselves back to
the garden. <<<
I always thought "we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" in
Woodstock meant the garden of Eden... but the "ghostly garden grows"
was a little less obvious to me on the first few listens. After many
years of personal growth and hundreds of Joni listening hours I came
to the following conclusion:
As we pass through life we come into contact with many places, people
and situations; then they are gone, fleeting vignettes which live only
in our memory. It's almost as if they slip from our reality into
another "world," the fourth dimension of time. On reflection, these
vignettes could be conceived of as "ghostly," no longer tangible or
based in reality but living on in another form and the longer we live
and have experiences the more our garden of ghosts grows.
I am probably full of shit <laughing>, but are we ever "wrong" when we
share our own interpretations?
Cassy
NP: Toad the Wet Sprocket "Fear"
