Bob wrote:
> Question: To what is Joni referring when she repeats "the ghostly garden
grows"?
Y'all are entitled to your opinions, but I think you're getting pretty
far afield here. I always thought the song (Nathan La Franeer) was about a
taxi ride in New York City. She makes other, more obvious, metaphors for
the city (we crawled the canyons slowly), but I think "the ghostly garden"
refers to the city as well. The whole line is:
"With gangs and girly shows
The ghostly garden grows"
And also:
"With parks and plastic clothes
The ghostly garden grows"
With some poetic license, the city might be considered a garden, with
buildings growing out of the ground, and might become "ghostly" on a dark,
foggy day.
Paul Pennington
Augusta, Georgia
