This is my best Joni song. She paints such a wonderful picture of a life on the sea. It also echoes the ideas put accross in Song to a Seagul - that man can never be completely happy living in nature or in the cities.
While the sea life has enchanted first her lover and then her, she is not completely satisfied because she wishes to be a mother yet the sea is no place to raise a child and "they'll say" she's "crazy" to want to have a baby out at sea. His sea dreams have taken priority over her dreams of a normal life on the land.
This is my best Joni song. She paints such a wonderful picture of a life on the sea. It also echoes the ideas put accross in Song to a Seagul - that man can never be completely happy living in nature or in the cities.
While the sea life has enchanted first her lover and then her, she is not completely satisfied because she wishes to be a mother yet the sea is no place to raise a child and "they'll say" she's "crazy" to want to have a baby out at sea. His sea dreams have taken priority over her dreams of a normal life on the land.
this song taught me that life has magic woven into its fabric when i first heard it as a young man when the album was first released in the 60s
this song taught me that life has magic woven into its fabric when i first heard it as a young man when the album was first released in the 60s