<<Nothing in the lyric leads me to think this...>>
Good point, Gordon...it's all speculation on my part, and up for discussion, to be
sure...I guess the lyric I lean on for justification of my argument would be:
<<We'll find a table in the shade
And sip our tea and lemonade
And watch the morning on parade
In morning Morgantown>>
The "Tea & Lemonade" reference suggests to me a parent-child interaction, of course it
doesn't HAVE to be, and your conception of the young lovers works equally as well.
Couple that with the image of a parent taking a child to a parade, with the little one
on the shoulders so they can see...I know this is not a specific parade per se that
Joni's writing about, but the imagery again suggests to me a parent-child experience.
Also, as you mentioned:
<<I'd like to buy you everything
A wooden bird with painted wings
A window full of colored rings>>
A wooden bird with painted wings & a window full of colored rings (suggesting a
suncatcher or mobile or something like that) doesn't seem to me to be something that a
young girl would want to buy a lover, but rather something that she'd want to give a
child.
Again, it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be that way, that's just what the song says to
me...
Keep in mind, she was performing this song WAY before she recorded it for LOTC. The
thought that she gave Kelly up out of fear of not being able to provide for her seems
to echo in the final words of the song:
"But the only thing I have to give
To make you smile, to win you with
Are all the mornings still to live
In morning Morgantown"
Bob
NP: 0+->, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
