Travelling Woman

I love the line "Never fall in love with potential, cause you can't see with your own eyes".

I think this explains something everyone does, which is get hopeful when we meet someone new. We're so ready to not be alone that if a person even remotely resembles what we want, we're willing to already fall in love with them (their potential) before we even know for sure.

Hang on travelling woman dont sacrifice your plan Cos it will come back to you before you lose it on the man Never fall in love with potential cos you can't see with your own eyes All the pretty faces and sorry words can take away your pride Got to listen to the vision Some may say a dream, words from the unseen

The whole album is about love vs lonely and pearl vs natasha and i think this deals with the former debate. It's a song to herself saying not to give up on anything- keeping looking, don't let your dreams fade away for anyone else, don't think about things that have passed on by and don't let anyone change your mind because you know what you want.

They can make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall

Getting what you want may be tiring, difficult and change your opinions.

Hang on travelling woman, dont sacrifice your plan Cos it will come back to you before you lose it on the man Got to listen to the vision Got to listen to the vision Play in the ashes of what you once were

But stick at it, listen to yourself and don't be afraid and upset by the things that have hurt you- think about how it has benefitted you.

ohhhhh man i think this song totally epitomizes her supposed break-up (i'm not sure what her relationship status is as of late) with her boyfriend. natasha is trying to establish herself, her art, her music, everything and build herself up around it, and i'm sure (from experience) that doing so can often cause a wedge in relationships when both people are doing the same thing (i.e. her boyfriend being in a band). both are moving in different directions, and she's torn between staying with him and possibly sacrificing her dream, or moving forward with what she wants to do, and losing him.

"'Travelling Woman' was one of the last ones I wrote and like 'Moon and Moon' for the previous album, I wrote it in the studio when I was finishing this record off. Supposedly it's kind of very straightforward in terms of lyrics and feeling, I think, compared to the other songs. It's pretty much the most direct, sort of me telling myself I have to sit by my own vision, not get too sort of off the track which I had been for half the album, pretty distracted and sort of all over the place. It's like coming home to myself."

Source: http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/interviews/bat-lashes-two-suns/