I heard Gillian play this song live last night when she opened for Bright Eyes, and my initial reaction was that it was about adoption. Her mother being just a girl of seventeen, gets pregnant accidentally by a man just passing through town. It's a wonder that she's in this world at all because it was such a chance meeting between her biological parents, and then her mother actually deciding to go through with the pregnancy and everything...I don't know, that's the feeling I get from it. Espeically "And a crowded street I see/A stranger's face that looks like me." Being adopted sometimes I feel the same way as the words in this song. I love her voice and music...
I heard Gillian play this song live last night when she opened for Bright Eyes, and my initial reaction was that it was about adoption. Her mother being just a girl of seventeen, gets pregnant accidentally by a man just passing through town. It's a wonder that she's in this world at all because it was such a chance meeting between her biological parents, and then her mother actually deciding to go through with the pregnancy and everything...I don't know, that's the feeling I get from it. Espeically "And a crowded street I see/A stranger's face that looks like me." Being adopted sometimes I feel the same way as the words in this song. I love her voice and music...