| Joni Mitchell – Barangrill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about not just roaming and travelling, but the constant search for authenticity - for people who are "real", and who really understand what life is about. JM contrasts this with her own faltering confidence, and the fear that she has got too comfortable, too spoilt. (This is a common theme in her songs, where she feels vaguely guilty about being "used to that clean white linen" or going "shopping .. for jewels", or in this case having the choice of the "rented Rolls Royce"). She builds up a fantasy that these simple folk in the bar and grill really "get it", aren't corrupted by too many choices, and too much self-consciousness. Then she laughs out loud at how ridiculous she is to dream that her waitress is enlightened - "ah, her mind's on her boyfriend". This song is so beautiful, so unique in tone, so honest. It reminds me of my own youth at the same time, and my friends' own fantasies that they would be closer to real people if they were dock workers or trawlermen or (sorry but I remember someone saying this) American Indians. |
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