| 10,000 Maniacs – Stockton Gala Days Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is a beautiful song, one of my favorites. “Blue in the stream like none I have seen, apart from dreams, that escape me”. Wish I could write like that. For years I thought the narrator was thinking back to when she was much younger, and contrasting that time with herself years later when so much has changed, that the younger version would not even recognize herself any more. But some of the above comments got me thinking more about this song, and I am glad they did because the lyrics make much more sense to me now. I do not think the sexual connotations are “wishful thinking”. Instead, I think this song is clearly about a sexual experience that the (female) narrator had with another girl during a beautiful summer of their adolescence. How else to interpret lines like “We made garland crowns in hiding”, “The was no girl as warm as you”, and “We had to lay down where the grow”? Now, when the narrator is telling the story many years later, she has for whatever reason abandoned this type of love, and is living a life untrue to her real feelings/orientation: “How I’ve learned to please, to doubt myself in need”, and “How I’ve learned to hide, how I’ve locked inside” Furthermore, it seems that the narrator’s parter from this story is long gone from her life, or even perhaps has died: “You’d be surprised if shown. But you’ll never, you’ll never know”. The meaning of NEVER seems pretty clear here. I don’t know who this song was written about. A friend or relative? But it doesn’t really matter. What a beautiful song. |
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