I've always thought that Loretta is a prostitute that the singer is in love with, or maybe he just thoroughly enjoys her company. But several lines seem to reinforce that idea; how she's a barroom girl, and she loves like the singer wants her to. She always seems to want to have fun, and she wants the singer to have fun too (which seems uncommon in conventional relationships). And of course, how Loretta doesn't care when the singer leaves, so long as there are other customers to take his place.
At first, I wondered if it could be a guitar he was speaking of, but then it occurred to me that it could be a bottle of whiskey "wears them 7's on her sleeve", "laughin eyes of hazel hue".
At first, I wondered if it could be a guitar he was speaking of, but then it occurred to me that it could be a bottle of whiskey "wears them 7's on her sleeve", "laughin eyes of hazel hue".
i LIKE this theory that it could be whiskey!!! Never thought of that. IT MAKES sense. Just like in "Dead Flowers" I've heard that the line Verse "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon, and another girl to take my pain away" ..the other girl was actually cocaine instead of heroin.
i LIKE this theory that it could be whiskey!!! Never thought of that. IT MAKES sense. Just like in "Dead Flowers" I've heard that the line Verse "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon, and another girl to take my pain away" ..the other girl was actually cocaine instead of heroin.
I've always thought that Loretta is a prostitute that the singer is in love with, or maybe he just thoroughly enjoys her company. But several lines seem to reinforce that idea; how she's a barroom girl, and she loves like the singer wants her to. She always seems to want to have fun, and she wants the singer to have fun too (which seems uncommon in conventional relationships). And of course, how Loretta doesn't care when the singer leaves, so long as there are other customers to take his place.
At first, I wondered if it could be a guitar he was speaking of, but then it occurred to me that it could be a bottle of whiskey "wears them 7's on her sleeve", "laughin eyes of hazel hue".
At first, I wondered if it could be a guitar he was speaking of, but then it occurred to me that it could be a bottle of whiskey "wears them 7's on her sleeve", "laughin eyes of hazel hue".
i LIKE this theory that it could be whiskey!!! Never thought of that. IT MAKES sense. Just like in "Dead Flowers" I've heard that the line Verse "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon, and another girl to take my pain away" ..the other girl was actually cocaine instead of heroin.
i LIKE this theory that it could be whiskey!!! Never thought of that. IT MAKES sense. Just like in "Dead Flowers" I've heard that the line Verse "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon, and another girl to take my pain away" ..the other girl was actually cocaine instead of heroin.