| John Mellencamp – Jack and Diane Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[tammit1971:43202] What are you basing your interpretation of these lyrics on? I'm not saying you're wrong at all, as a lot of songwriter's lyrics are deliberately left open for each listener's own personal interpretation. I was just wondering if you read an interview- or something-with Mellencamp about it? Another commentator here cites a 2014 interview with Mellencamp in which he explains that the song is about an inter-racial couple...so it makes sense how you picked up on the unspoken tabu theme within it. Anyhow, if I hadn't have read that comment about said interview I would have felt your interpretation was the closest to the the actual meaning implied in the lyrics. | |
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