A man and a woman meet each other and they have their ideas - preconceptions - about each other:
"Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?"
"She says that I really remind her of money"
"Weren't you the woman who was recently given a Fulbright?"
They each decide not to shatter their illusions about each other
"Who am I to blow against the wind?"
This keeps up the pretence and the allure and so they never really get to know or understand each other. The man refrains as ultimately it's a fleeting encounter - why spoil the fun?
"we come and we go, that's a thought that I keep in the back of my head"
The song is about preconception
and deciding to stick with it even though you know it might not be true.
A man and a woman meet each other and they have their ideas - preconceptions - about each other:
"Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?" "She says that I really remind her of money" "Weren't you the woman who was recently given a Fulbright?"
They each decide not to shatter their illusions about each other
"Who am I to blow against the wind?"
This keeps up the pretence and the allure and so they never really get to know or understand each other. The man refrains as ultimately it's a fleeting encounter - why spoil the fun?
"we come and we go, that's a thought that I keep in the back of my head"
The song is about preconception and deciding to stick with it even though you know it might not be true.
"I know what I know, I'll sing what I said."