Hauntingly beautiful and powerful... amazing song. I put it in my car CD player, and drove to Mt. Tamalpais, drove up and down Hwy. 1, down to the Marin Headlands and San Francisco... just to feel all this imagery in its native setting. Amazing.
As far as what it means, wow, it could be so many things. My instinct says the speaker is a ghost or someone gone looking back. "I haunt the streets of San Francisco / Watch over loved ones and old friends"...
Ooh, I get it. It's fog. They're the ghosts of the fog. The fog is personified - "I came up from under the ocean / Evaporated sea salt water / A mist above the skyline" - And I think he's personifying the fog as all of those ghosts, all those lost verses, the people still haunting the "Many places we / Lay down in sleepy hidden shadows" - Tamalpais, Marin Headlands, San Francisco - and watching over loved ones, peering into windows. These are the "ghosts of April" that "Fill the foggy day" and "hide the hills away" creeping "on the bay flowing into the ocean glowing."
Wow. I'll never look at fog the same way... beautiful. Just beautiful.
Hauntingly beautiful and powerful... amazing song. I put it in my car CD player, and drove to Mt. Tamalpais, drove up and down Hwy. 1, down to the Marin Headlands and San Francisco... just to feel all this imagery in its native setting. Amazing.
As far as what it means, wow, it could be so many things. My instinct says the speaker is a ghost or someone gone looking back. "I haunt the streets of San Francisco / Watch over loved ones and old friends"...
Ooh, I get it. It's fog. They're the ghosts of the fog. The fog is personified - "I came up from under the ocean / Evaporated sea salt water / A mist above the skyline" - And I think he's personifying the fog as all of those ghosts, all those lost verses, the people still haunting the "Many places we / Lay down in sleepy hidden shadows" - Tamalpais, Marin Headlands, San Francisco - and watching over loved ones, peering into windows. These are the "ghosts of April" that "Fill the foggy day" and "hide the hills away" creeping "on the bay flowing into the ocean glowing."
Wow. I'll never look at fog the same way... beautiful. Just beautiful.
What a gorgeous insight to this song! Thank you!
What a gorgeous insight to this song! Thank you!