I Wish I Was the Moon

Truly wonderful, I am saddened that so few peopel have picked up on Neko Case on this site. But this song is wonderful, simple but effective lyrics and that voice, the best female singer going.

I love the line 'this is crazy'. I mean, when you feel like this, all cold and lonely and out of place, you still realise how utterly crazy it is to have those feelings. "Why me, why am I feeling like this, why not someone else. Life wasn't supposed to be like this. This is just crazy."

Never knew a song could be so simple yet so incredibly beautiful. It's amazing. Could anyone care to answer my question? Do you think it is "Chimney falls and lover's blaze", or "Chimney falls as lovers blaze"? And just what is it supposed to mean? In love with the song, I just want to know!

i'm pretty sure it's "chimney falls and lovers blaze" the first time, but "chimney falls as lovers blaze" the second time (at least on the album version)-- although i don't think too much of the meaning hinges upon that distinction. i took this to be a metaphor for the disintegration of their union... love burning out, something once strong now crumbling... now she's cold and lonely.

"chimney falls and lovers blaze" brings to my mind the image of the two lovers falling out of the lightning-struck tower often found in tarot decks... the tense of "falls" could be pointing to that moment, the low-point, when the speaker realizes that he (or maybe she) is "lost" after having "sold" themselves, and the flood of loneliness accompanying this realization... the entire song is steeped in a kind of loneliness, but it's a beautiful solitude (amplified, of course, by neko's vocals and the guitar/string work here), much like the image of the wolf or coyote on the ledge, looking up at the moon... here, it is neko "howling" that primal feeling, the knowledge that one is always alone ("thought that I was young"), the innocence that always has been lost..

In an interview Neko said that this song was written about her father whom she described as a 'sad and lonely man' who hated his life and let them know about it every day. Her mother and father emigrated from the Ukraine, when it was still part of the communist Soviet Union. The line "god bless me I'm a free man" refers to that, but they were very poor which gives us the line "with nowhere free to go". He worked for the US Air Force which meant moving around a lot and why they wound up in Tacoma Washington as there is an Air Force Base there. It's truly one of her sadder songs.

my favorite neko song and one of my favorite songs ever. beautiful in all realms.

one of my favourite songs

i went to see her in concert she sounds ten times better live then she does on cd i think that's amazing. because usually people cant hold a note when they;re live

such a good song