This is brilliance!! It is an introspective number about fantasizing about the star of the children's book series, Madeline (remember....In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived 12 little girls in two straight lines....no? ah). Anyways, Hanson is ruminating on their infatuation with the charming redhead child, and realizing that they can't "try to pretend". She is lonely ("You were lonely inside...") because she has to live at a boarding school with a bunch of girls. How agonizing. Hanson created something remarkable and original with this song, and we should all give them kudos.
This is brilliance!! It is an introspective number about fantasizing about the star of the children's book series, Madeline (remember....In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived 12 little girls in two straight lines....no? ah). Anyways, Hanson is ruminating on their infatuation with the charming redhead child, and realizing that they can't "try to pretend". She is lonely ("You were lonely inside...") because she has to live at a boarding school with a bunch of girls. How agonizing. Hanson created something remarkable and original with this song, and we should all give them kudos.