| Cory Branan – Sweet Janine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Wow, I LOVE this song. Beautiful sound, beautiful lyrics. I think the lyrics are pretty clear if you read them - the speaker is driving down Union Ave (if you're from Memphis like Cory, you know this is a major road in the midtown/downtown area) in the sweltering heat; when he looks to the side of the road, he thinks he sees Janine, a girl who has died some years back by drowning. He remembers the funeral and the way her mother sounded when she stroked her dead daughter's dress. He's not sure if he's awake or dreaming, then decides it must be real. He parks his car and walks over to her (I love that line "forget all about the afternoon heat"). He sits down with her and she points to his car and his dead body - obviously he has actually died in a car wreck, and that's why he can see her. I also have a correction - that last chorus actually goes like this: "Sweet Janine I see just what you mean It was all just a dream Now I'm truly waking" Now that he's dead, he's truly alive. I also love the way that he wraps it up by repeating the first two lines. The first time he sings them, "passing away" means he's passing the other cars, but at the end, it means that he's literally "passing away," dying. What a clever and incredibly cool song. And he handles the lyrics with such delicacy on the track. It's just perfect. |
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