Hi Jenny,
That intro to "Talk to Me" IS very strange...
There was a moon and a street lamp
I didn't know I drank such a lot
Till I pissed a tequila anaconda
The full length of the parking lot!
Oh I talk too loose
Again I talk too open and free
I pay a high price for my open talking
Like you do for your silent mystery
There's basically NO transition from her "pissing" story to her going on
about her talking...but I think it's there to set up the song as a somewhat
playful one, and she changes subjects on lines 4 to 5 much like an overly
yakky person would change subjects in conversation before you can get a word
in edgewise.
The first time I heard the song (on the radio, no less, when DJRD was new) I
thought it was her pissing (or peeing or whatever verb one wishes to attach
to the act) after drinking a drink called a Tequila Anaconda. But later I
realized that she was saying that the stream wound down the parking lot like
a snake.
In any regard, Joni likes to consider herself as "one of the guys" and I
don't think she'd have any problem squatting in a parking lot, probably after
one of her companions had just pissed on a wall or "watered" a tree...
Bob
NP: Mary Chapin-Carpenter, "Stones In The Road"
