Okay seriously—unless he’s cutting out on Trudie—which I doubt—this must be about her. Why everyone would have laughed or said it would cost the moon—alimony?—is a mystery. But he speaks of losing touch with old friends, seemingly celebrity friends—because he read about them in magazines and—they made the scene, so it sounds like the Trudie years.
The last stanza is confusing. Maybe everybody dreamed refers to people who also chased fame and have since died. And many of these people achieved fame—climbing to the top most branch and grasping till they were through, but then they fell … perhaps meaning once you die, all of your success is a wash? The flaw in my analysis is “everybody fell but you” and that creates little rips in the rest of the supposition.
I don’t think this but the devilish part of me can’t resist—it really is about Trudie and the last stanza is saying gee, so many great chicks reached for wonderful me and everyone fell off the tree but you, babe. I’m laughing. It would be a dumb premise to use for song material.
Okay seriously—unless he’s cutting out on Trudie—which I doubt—this must be about her. Why everyone would have laughed or said it would cost the moon—alimony?—is a mystery. But he speaks of losing touch with old friends, seemingly celebrity friends—because he read about them in magazines and—they made the scene, so it sounds like the Trudie years.
The last stanza is confusing. Maybe everybody dreamed refers to people who also chased fame and have since died. And many of these people achieved fame—climbing to the top most branch and grasping till they were through, but then they fell … perhaps meaning once you die, all of your success is a wash? The flaw in my analysis is “everybody fell but you” and that creates little rips in the rest of the supposition.
I don’t think this but the devilish part of me can’t resist—it really is about Trudie and the last stanza is saying gee, so many great chicks reached for wonderful me and everyone fell off the tree but you, babe. I’m laughing. It would be a dumb premise to use for song material.