Blue Caravan

Teng herself said the song was inspired by a rental vehicle she was waiting to pick up (a blue caravan, of course), but is actually about someone who's beginning to realize that all the relationships they believed in are actually illusions.

To me, it's about taking someone for granted and waking up and realising that they won't always be there.

I think it's about a writer who's too attached to her Muse. We (writers) create fictional people for a living - I don't think there's a single one who hasn't had a wonderful Muse take up residence, and then you neglect them for too long, and they fly away ...

Could be a real caravan, or a metaphor. Could be literally blue or emotionally blue. Could be all of those things!

Maybe the blue caravan represents something claustrophobic and also comforting, calming and restricting at the same time. I also think the 'valley of light' might refer to a sky full of stars - or even a lake/ocean with the reflection of stars.

This song has a great significance to me. Plenty of times I've been preoccupied and comforted by what you might call imaginary love and lust - either truly imaginary or because the person I thought was one thing turned out to be someone else.

A friend said this song reminded her of me after I parted ways with my muse, a man I loved but needed to get over because he didn't love me back.

I think the narrator's "true love" could be someone she made up entirely ("he was a beautiful fiction"), or it could be that he was in her life for a time, but left because of things not working out ("my true love is a man that I haven't seen in years"). When she says "the highway is my great wall" it represents the obstacle between her and her muse/the man she lost.

I think "blue caravan" is an actual caravan. I think when she asks it to "carry me down to him soon" she is driving to him, and in the process, thinking of all the great things about him. When she sings all other lines, I think she is just reminesing about him. When she says "who never existed at all" I don't think she meant he didn't exist. I think she means, that who she thought he was, wasn't really who he is. "Oh, he was a beautiful fiction I invented to keep out the cold And now my blue, blue caravan I can feel my heart growing old"

I believe she is saying that she made up this "image" of him to make herself feel better. And I think the last two lines is her driving away from him, and stopping loving him. If that makes any sense.

Granted, this is just my take, but I think it's a good one.

The blue caravan, is Vienna's word vehicle for a sad, blue, emotional state the man was real, however her belief the he would actually stick around was a "beautiful fiction" something that she concocted to "keep out the cold" or the reality that he wasn't what she wanted him to be. Her "True love was a man that never existed at all" the man she loved wasn't the man that existed. She loved a fantasy version of him.

So, that's my take, what do you guys say.

I think FragileStrength is right: I think Vienna is talking about a real caravan.

In fact, I think the song is sung from the perspective of three different women, traveling together. They're approaching their destination (their caravan is "winding down to the valley of lights," which makes me think they're traveling at night and climbing down paths into the valley where the lights of the town glimmer below). One woman (I picture her as youngest of the three) is eager to get to where they're going to be reunited with her "true love." The other two women recall their "true loves," one woman regrets that she believed her man would wait for her forever, the other (I imagine her as the oldest/wisest) has enough distance from her "true love" to see that she had idealized him to the point of "beautiful fiction" and believed him to be something he wasn't.

At any rate, whatever your interpretation, the song is just beautiful. I love Vienna. :)

In my opinion, this is a song about somebody who has loved someone dearly, but found out that the person they fell in love with is not real: he is a fabricated version of this man, and the real man is far from the image that he first showed to her. He seemed perfect for her, but after she found out what he was really like, the relationship was never the same.

I think this song is about a woman that gets lost in a snowy pass. She sees a Caravan that appears Blue to her because of the mountain light. She is trying to get to it and to give her strength creates a man she needs to get home to. But she eventually succumbs to the elements and not even the figment of her imagination can get her to the Caravan which could take her down to the valley and safety.