Nuriel Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> in "how do you stop" joni adds the line - "how do you stop a baby being born" - a
>line which does not appear in the james brown song. and i was wondering why. could it
>be that joni felt so messed up with her daughter's loss that she was wishing she
>would have never bore her?
Granted, there are messed up areas in Joni's life, (isn't there in everyone's?), but I
respectfully think that you are way off base by thinking that the "how do you stop a
baby being born" was her addition dovetailing with wishing she had never had her child.
The song "How Do You Stop" is more about "what can you do about the inevitable" when
you've put love off until "later." Or what appears to be the inevitable.
And the tinker that Joni is, perhaps that "baby being born" just slid out naturally
and worked for her.
It's a great song - one of the few that I enjoy from the album T.I. It is a very
poignant one when I think about it in conjunction with love lost, missed connections
and oportunities.
This song also is a marvelous puzzle. Do things get too late and do inevitable forces
mean that there is no getting back to that love? Or is it just another variation on
the GBS line that "youth is wasted on the very young?" Once you've "seen the light"
and learned something, is it too late?
I know for myself that the deeper I get into my forties, (sigh, tick, tick, tick), the
more this song resonates for me.
MG
np: things in the dryer whirling.
PS I would also like to thank the list members who wrote me off list. It really made
me feel so welcomed.
