| Jackson Browne – Jamaica, Say You Will Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Here are JB's own words about the song: “I wrote that song for a girl I was seeing who lived nearby the ocean. She worked for this old Italian guy in a garden. An organic vegetable farm overlooking Zuma Beach. And I used to go visit her. And it was a pretty idyllic time. She was very beautiful, and ideologically she was into yoga and vegetarianism and organic gardening. I was really crazy about her, but I wasn’t into any of those things. And I’d go hang with her and she’d pick figs and I’d feel transported into some sort of Maxfield Parrish landscape – that sort of dry fig orchard with this very beautiful girl. I wrote this song for her. It was sort of a metaphor. Later I realized that that song really wasn’t really about her. As much as she inspired me, what I was really talking about was a relationship which I’d concluded a few months before, and which had been going on for two or three years. She was really drawn to an adult world and I just wanted to stay indoors and make love. So the song’s about a girl who’s going to sail away with her father and go into the world, and a guy who wants to stay there in that idyllic world.” |
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