Come Back From San Francisco Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pvnrtnerd 

Cover art for Come Back From San Francisco lyrics by Magnetic Fields, The

So, since the moon doesnt need poetry except to be noticed and the wind doesnt need trees, except, well, to be noticed...

The metaphor is that the missing person doesnt need the singer at all except that the singer kind of tells people about the missing person.

Ya? Otherwise it is a meaningless metaphor which makes me sad because I like the song so!