Patricia wrote:
>
> 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?
Well I can't say exactly what Joni meant cause I wasn't there...but when I
hear it I think of 2 very passionate people, two people with a fire inside
so to speak. In my own experience when two people like this get together
it's not really evident who was the one to initiate the blaze that follows,
as it just happens with no explanation or understanding. It takes over your
who body...that warmth is so comforting and needed...."all I ever wanted was
to come in from the cold". That's just my spin on it.
I have enjoyed reading the favorite lines posts as some of them really hit
me, and make me think, some of them I didn't think of myself but hit me when
I saw them. Jericho being one of them. Also the above lines from Come In
>From The Cold. I'm sure I could have a list a mile long but I'll stop there.
Love Nikki
np: The Chain~ Fleetwood Mac (12-16-94 Switzerland)
"Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true...Vienna waits for you" ~
Billy Joel
