| Something For Kate – The Astronaut Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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first of all i've always had the idea that the person paul is singing to in this song is a girl. a girl he likes. maybe that's a romantic preconception, or maybe it's just that i like to imagine that paul might be singing to me. because he's lovely and all. i don't think it's really a matter of understanding something for kate's songs, it's more responding to them and drawing your own interpretation. your interpretation isn't wrong, even if it wasn't exactly what paul was thinking when he wrote the song. i never really imagined the girl in this song to be full of herself. perhaps. but it seems to me that paul is singing about her with too much affection implied for him to be putting her down for having a swollen head. i figured she was more of a dreamer, not very down to earth. the fact paul describes her as an "astronaut" to me implies that she's always off in space, exploring places nobody has been before, because space is something we know very little about. he seems to associate her with a sort of magic: "ooh, i can see you... on a clear night i can see you, singing circles away" it also seems that this girl is a bit unattainable for him, picturing her high up in a window, in space, far away; and he asks her to get herself down to him "i will blow you out of the sky, if you don't get yourself down here". he says that she can't make up her mind. the song seems to be just describing the character of someone who isn't very stable or logical. |
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