Pat,
Grammar's never been my strong point either so I won't be too tough on Joni.
Mark suggests a fix that could easily be explained by an omission in
typesetting, an instant cure!
"Come In From The Cold" is full of images of rebirth and the confusing
thrills of adolescent novelty. Appearing on NRH, time and time again
referred to as the album on which she "returned to form" and released just
previous to her bust up with Klein, it seems consistent that images of
reawakening are present. Arson is a crime, and though perhaps the victim
here (metaphorically), she may be resigning herself that the forced change
is truly what she wanted all along. The fire is fueled within herself. "I
feel renewed, I feel disabled, By these bonfires in my spine." "Is this just
vulgar electricity (are you sparking me?) Is this the edifying fire (or are
you saving me?)"
CC
"It seemed like he read my mind, he saw me mistrusting him and still acting
kind." -- JM
>From: "Patricia O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Patricia O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "c Karma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Covert Complicity, notches
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:24:10 -0500
>
>---- Original Message -----
>From: c Karma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > "Do your smiles covert complicity, debase as it admires?" -- what's that
> > about? read Pat's post...
>
>My problem with this is not the meaning but the grammar, it's like Jim
>Morrison saying:
>
>If they say I never loved you
>You know they are a liar
>
>It hits me as a mistake, it's a glaring stand out every time I hear it
> which in the case of the Doors song happens to be more often than I'd
>like
>to hear it.).
>
>She also says in "Come In From the Cold", which BTW is a song that I love:
>I feel your legs under the table
>Leaning into mine
>I feel renewed
>I feel disabled
>By these bonfires in my spine
>I don't know who the arsonist was
>Which incendiary soul
>But all I ever wanted...
>
>I used to try to make this conform to some idea of sexual awakening, but
>the
>problem was, wouldn't she know who the "arsonist" was if that was the
>meaning? So I think that she means bon-fires as back-pain, post-polio
>syndrome, the arsonist being the "incendiary soul" from whom she contracted
>polio. I t makes sense to me, but ...what is it doing in this song, in
>this
>verse?
>
>Patricia O'Connor
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>private to CJ: NP Slip Sliding in my head
>
>
>
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