Wysteria

This is one of my favorite songs from my college days. I loved it so much that I even considered naming my daughter Wysteria! Good thing I didn't though! I feel that this song is about one of his lost loves, Instead of using her name, he uses the flower wisteria, which he changes the spelling to Wysteria. He mourns for his lost love as she has left him for another man. He predicts that she will dump her new man too, and he feels sorry for him. That is why he says, "When he got to the sad part, did he stay a bit too long to save his heart?" This woman has a secret, and she changes her appearance. She is very mysterious. I find the song very hauntingly romantic. It will always be one of my favorites. I regret the fact that I never got to see Dan Fogelberg in concert. I had the biggest crush on him. May he forever rest in peace.

Dan Fogelberg was asked "What about “Wysteria?”

And he answered with this:

I don’t know where that came from. I think that was just a college drug haze, because it doesn’t make much sense. It’s this really weird thing about a vampire; a dead woman. I used to ask the audience what they thought this song was about and nobody knew. (Laughs) Wysteria is dead, it’s a ghost. And this guy’s still hung up on this ghost. Listen to it in that context (laughs). It’s a weird song. I think I remember lying in a hallway of some dumpy house I lived in in college and this thing came out. And I didn’t even know what the name “Wysteria” meant. I was at a head shop and I saw a candle or some incense called Wysteria, and I thought it was a great word (laughs).