| Neko Case – Nearly Midnight, Honolulu Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've read several interviews in which Neko Case has stated she is not close with her parents. I don't know the specifics, but I can't help but to wonder if this song has some autobiographical context to it. I think she so deeply feels for this girl because in some way she identifies with that girl - the last chorus of the song she speaks to her as if from experience, from someone who has been in that girl's shoes and is looking back. The lines: When you say, "My mother, she did not love me. My mother, she did not love me" I think could also work with the quotes moved as follows: When you say, "My mother, she did not love me." My mother, she did not love me With the repeat of "my mother, she did not love me" being a very direct autobiographical statement, and I think her delivery of this line in the song sounds like a lament instead of statement. I also wonder if the kid at the end of the side is both the girl at the bus stop and the little girl that Neko Case once was, so it works on both the level of having her love extended to the little girl at the bus stop and to who she was at that age and is now advising the girl at the bus stop based on her own experiences. Nonetheless, this is one of the most affecting songs on the album - sad and moving and unfortunately relevant. |
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