Adding to the swirl of confusion around the lyrics to
DITS:
Maybe you or someone out there could help me with
"Petrified wood process tall timber down to rock".
my take on this is that the speaker (he) is saying "so
what you feel all independant and full of a firey
feminine spirit-sooner or later you'll be stuck in
your ways like the rest of us!"
"She refers to Anima as a 'vengeful little goddess'
earlier in the song so maybe she's talking about a
wooden or stone idol..."
Anima is actually the bit of femininity present in the
male unconscious (animus is the bit of masculinity in
the female unconscious). These are terms coined by
psychologist Carl Jung. See the book Man and His
Symbols, by Jung, et.al. for a lengthy explanation.
Technically, women woulden't have an anima, only an
animus. In the lyric to DITS Joni is either
misunderstanding Jung's concept (easy enough to do),
or blatently ignoring it in an attempt (in the lyric
anyways) to connect herself with a feminine power.
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