I know she wrote much of this album when she was in the southwest. And the first time I really listened to this album was this past summer when I lived in new mexico (and I have always lived in new york - quite a change!) So I know so much of the Scarlet Walk songs are references to this part of the country and to the legacy of the native americans.
the very first verse is precisely how I felt upon coming to new mexico:
"Strange
Thought I knew you well
Thought I had read the sky
Thought I had read a change
in your eyes
so strange
Woke up to a world
that I am
not a part
except when I can
play it's stranger"
I thought I knew the USA, my home country, until I lived in NM. It was so different than what I was used to. There was even a different language. I literally woke up to a world that I was not apart of, except when I played the stranger.
this may be nothing of what she was thinking when she wrote it, but this is how I always feel when I hear this song - that theres such a disconnect (or, there was) between me and my lifestyle in NY, compared to the land and the way of life in the southwest.
I know she wrote much of this album when she was in the southwest. And the first time I really listened to this album was this past summer when I lived in new mexico (and I have always lived in new york - quite a change!) So I know so much of the Scarlet Walk songs are references to this part of the country and to the legacy of the native americans.
the very first verse is precisely how I felt upon coming to new mexico: "Strange Thought I knew you well Thought I had read the sky Thought I had read a change in your eyes so strange Woke up to a world that I am not a part except when I can play it's stranger"
I thought I knew the USA, my home country, until I lived in NM. It was so different than what I was used to. There was even a different language. I literally woke up to a world that I was not apart of, except when I played the stranger.
this may be nothing of what she was thinking when she wrote it, but this is how I always feel when I hear this song - that theres such a disconnect (or, there was) between me and my lifestyle in NY, compared to the land and the way of life in the southwest.