I can't help but think of the Joseph in the Genesis account who was a high-ranking officer in Potiphar's household, and was propositioned by Potiphar's wife. There are a number of literary references in the album, but all of them skew just a little bit (use of poetic license) from the original story, perhaps a different interpretation of the original, as Joseph rejected the woman's advances in the Bible... PJ uses Joseph or Joe quite a bit in this album to represent a male figure, even when she's referring to a character whose name we know (Seymour Glass from Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in the song "A Perfect Day Elise"), so maybe I'm way off on this one, but the idea of passion and relationship and uncertainty seems to lend itself (maybe errantly) in my mind to that account.
I tend to think of it as something biblical too. But I may be biased because of one of the photos in the albums artwork which looks like it's been taken from a children's book about the nativity. In the photo it says "Mary and Joseph went on and on. The sun went down. It was getting cold. They saw fire."
I tend to think of it as something biblical too. But I may be biased because of one of the photos in the albums artwork which looks like it's been taken from a children's book about the nativity. In the photo it says "Mary and Joseph went on and on. The sun went down. It was getting cold. They saw fire."
I can't help but think of the Joseph in the Genesis account who was a high-ranking officer in Potiphar's household, and was propositioned by Potiphar's wife. There are a number of literary references in the album, but all of them skew just a little bit (use of poetic license) from the original story, perhaps a different interpretation of the original, as Joseph rejected the woman's advances in the Bible... PJ uses Joseph or Joe quite a bit in this album to represent a male figure, even when she's referring to a character whose name we know (Seymour Glass from Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in the song "A Perfect Day Elise"), so maybe I'm way off on this one, but the idea of passion and relationship and uncertainty seems to lend itself (maybe errantly) in my mind to that account.
I tend to think of it as something biblical too. But I may be biased because of one of the photos in the albums artwork which looks like it's been taken from a children's book about the nativity. In the photo it says "Mary and Joseph went on and on. The sun went down. It was getting cold. They saw fire."
I tend to think of it as something biblical too. But I may be biased because of one of the photos in the albums artwork which looks like it's been taken from a children's book about the nativity. In the photo it says "Mary and Joseph went on and on. The sun went down. It was getting cold. They saw fire."