| Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's interesting cosmo1 - my interpretation, what this song means to me personally - is kind of simillar, but at the same time almost the opposite of what it means to you. By that I mean that I see it as someone who was free, but is now bound. Ten years ago I ended up in a wheelchair, before that I was an actor, singer, dancer. In a lot of ways, the wheelchair did give me freedom because without it, I was just stuck in a bed, but it was very frightening to go out into the world. Trying to work out who this *me* was. It was really hard for me to work up the courage to go anywhere in the chair, but after a few years my daughter tricked me into going to a karaoke bar with her. For a long time I was content to sit on the sidelines and watch her perform, but eventually she pushed (quite literally!) me into going up to sing, and I picked this song. For me - the "floor that I loved" was a stage, and the rest of it was basically looking back at who I used to be, because the memory is all I have left of her. Whenever I hear it now, well I still have mixed emotions, but it makes me feel stronger and happier because I did sort of get back to me by putting myself back on stage. You are right about interpretations. I am always interested to hear the songwriter's meanning, but that doesn't often change what it means to me. It can mean something different to everyone who hears it. I doubt anyone knew what it meant to me the first night I sang it. |
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