| Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The narrator of the famous blue rain coat song had a friend who went to the train station to pick up his girl Lil. But that girl never showed up That friend of the narrator then stole the narrator’s girl Jane. Jane went off with the friend and was spiritually cleansed by the friend in ways the narrator never thought could be done. After a time, Jane left the friend and came back to the narrator, and Jane is sleeping his apartment as this song letter is being written. The friend now lives a simple existence in the desert like a monk or hermit. He had decided to go "clear" or purify himself. That night he decided to go clear may be when he broke up with Jane. The narrator is curious if the friend ever did go clear and purify himself, and wants the friend to know that he, the narrator, forgives the friend and wishes him well. Jane wakes up and wants her good wishes added to the letter. The narrator speaks of himself as sort of a one time enemy of the friend. And the narrator speculates that maybe some day the friend will come back, either to see the narrator, or to steal Jane away from the narrator again while he is sleeping. The narrator does not seem too upset by these possibilities That is my reading of the torn blue raincoat song and it seems sort of reasonably clear, almost. GARYMARKBE@AOL.COM |
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