How could anyone write such a wonderful person off? I am sorry that
happened to you.
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> Nuriel Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > 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.
