My favourite as well. The willow ("Wild willow, windy winter, won't you blow through me ...") is also addressed in "Werewolf", interestingly ("Weeping willow, won't you wallow louder"), which suggests that the two go together - that'd make the 'he' at the beginning of the song the speaker's father, possibly, and the one towards the end (of whom she says she might resemble his mother, ergo if she is the mother, her lover is the father) one of the lovers she turns to that are just like him. Then in this song there's that sense of recognising that leaf-in-the-wind, here-and-there-and-nowhere kind of life she's leading (also through the death of the brother, who is also mentioned in "Werewolf") and after a long phase of loneliness and doomed affairs that she fled into 'desperate for love' possibly returning to what remains of the family.
Or it could just be another beatnik fairy tale :)
My favourite as well. The willow ("Wild willow, windy winter, won't you blow through me ...") is also addressed in "Werewolf", interestingly ("Weeping willow, won't you wallow louder"), which suggests that the two go together - that'd make the 'he' at the beginning of the song the speaker's father, possibly, and the one towards the end (of whom she says she might resemble his mother, ergo if she is the mother, her lover is the father) one of the lovers she turns to that are just like him. Then in this song there's that sense of recognising that leaf-in-the-wind, here-and-there-and-nowhere kind of life she's leading (also through the death of the brother, who is also mentioned in "Werewolf") and after a long phase of loneliness and doomed affairs that she fled into 'desperate for love' possibly returning to what remains of the family. Or it could just be another beatnik fairy tale :)