The first two lines are a way of saying that the girl he is singing about is selling herself short. Tulips at one point in history were worth more thant their weight in gold, this is how the netherlands gained most of their wealth inorder to create the tradeing empire that they established for a short time. The legend has it that tuilps were worth so much only untill someone accidentally bit into a bulb which the plant grows out of, then they were discarded as poor food rations. Im not sure how true this is but it sounds like a good story to me. The rest is pretty much self explanitory to me.
This song is brilliant like all of his songs. One of my favorite versions is where it blends with Hide your love away.
Yes around this time Costello had an affair with an American woman who was a writer (everything you say now sounds like it was ghostwritten), who he met and who lived in NYC. It’s absolutely brilliant use of NY as metaphor, in Waltz Time.
Yes around this time Costello had an affair with an American woman who was a writer (everything you say now sounds like it was ghostwritten), who he met and who lived in NYC. It’s absolutely brilliant use of NY as metaphor, in Waltz Time.
The first two lines are a way of saying that the girl he is singing about is selling herself short. Tulips at one point in history were worth more thant their weight in gold, this is how the netherlands gained most of their wealth inorder to create the tradeing empire that they established for a short time. The legend has it that tuilps were worth so much only untill someone accidentally bit into a bulb which the plant grows out of, then they were discarded as poor food rations. Im not sure how true this is but it sounds like a good story to me. The rest is pretty much self explanitory to me.
This song is brilliant like all of his songs. One of my favorite versions is where it blends with Hide your love away.
Yes around this time Costello had an affair with an American woman who was a writer (everything you say now sounds like it was ghostwritten), who he met and who lived in NYC. It’s absolutely brilliant use of NY as metaphor, in Waltz Time.
Yes around this time Costello had an affair with an American woman who was a writer (everything you say now sounds like it was ghostwritten), who he met and who lived in NYC. It’s absolutely brilliant use of NY as metaphor, in Waltz Time.