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| Gordon Lightfoot – Spanish Moss Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[deemic:51391] You don't need to be a man. In fact, you probably need to be a woman to truly appreciate the loveliness of his meaning and how he views it in a beautiful, evocative way. Rather than the usual crude names assigned to it. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Spanish Moss Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Gordons inspiration for Spanish Moss is his ex-wife Brita, with whom he remained friends despite a tempestuous divorce. Several years after the divorce he and Brita were talking about, well, Spanish Moss. Both were intrigued by it, having seen it in separate journeys to the south. Lightfoot's songs about Brita often were intertwined with sensual, evocative images of nature. Lavender, the sea, rose petals in a forest of rain. In this case, Spanish Moss is also an allusion to marijuana (he mentions this in a live audio recording of a show he played in Boston Ma 1977) as well as representing the hypnotic effect the female body, specifically Britas, always had on him. He found this part of her in particular, to be alluring, beautiful, natural and worthy of praise. Rather than describing it in crude terminology used by men. In fact, both the pot and her Spanish Moss leave him unable to think about much else. Not to mention she knows exactly how to kiss him in a way that leaves him haunted by the sensuality of how she does it. It's threefold representation, the actual moss they eventually saw in the south on a trip. The pot they smoked along with drinking moonshine and her nakedness. As he drives home back to Canada, he imagines what might have been had their reunion been permanent. And he wishes she knew all of this. He never ever got over her despite other relationships and marriages. |
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