--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some time ago I had a friend listen to Song For
> Sharon. I asked her what she
> thought it was about. After the song was over she
> said matter-of-factly:
> "She wants to have an affair with Sharon's husband."
Coming as they do, near the end of the song, I can
only guess she's referring to these lines:
Sharon you've got a husband
And a family and a farm
I've got the apple of temptation
And a diamond snake around my arm
Now not to impugn your friend's powers of perception,
but if asked for an interpretation on first listen --
the freshest thing in a first-time listener's mind
will be the last thing they hear.
That's especially true for Joni's deeper confessional
songs like this one ... where there's no traditional
repeated "hook" used to anchor the rest of the lyric.
So my guess is, those four lines "caught her ear" so
to speak, and became the lens she used to focus the
rest of what she's just heard.
I'm also sure that, upon repeated closer listenings
she'd probably scratch her head and wonder "How'd I
ever come up with that!?"
Don Rowe
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