The range of emotion she expresses in this song is just amazing. Anger, sorrow, lonelyness- but also strength and maybe even hope.
Meaning-wise it's pretty obvious: adjusting to a new kind of relationship with an ex-lover. She's looking back at what they had, full of mixed emotions because she still has feelings for him, but the wounds from the break up are still fresh.
Joni Mitchell's songs capture me because they manage to be so personal, and yet so universal. Just listening to her sing this song, you know she's writing about something that really has meaning to her, but she leaves things vague enough that you can fit your own experiences to the lyrics, and it becomes just as meaningful to you.
The range of emotion she expresses in this song is just amazing. Anger, sorrow, lonelyness- but also strength and maybe even hope.
Meaning-wise it's pretty obvious: adjusting to a new kind of relationship with an ex-lover. She's looking back at what they had, full of mixed emotions because she still has feelings for him, but the wounds from the break up are still fresh.
Joni Mitchell's songs capture me because they manage to be so personal, and yet so universal. Just listening to her sing this song, you know she's writing about something that really has meaning to her, but she leaves things vague enough that you can fit your own experiences to the lyrics, and it becomes just as meaningful to you.