This one gave me a bit of pause. Specifically the line referring to a finger-apple. But I thought back to Police Me and the Blackberry Storm reference and I thought this might be a reference to the iPhone. An Apple product that uses a finger touch interface - a finger-apple. This, I think, is a song about a woman who loves the absolute wrong kind of man. The controlling, "where are you" call every five minutes type of guy. Her shackling is advanced for a couple of reasons, a) its the 21st century and women are STILL shackled in many relationships b) its a technological shackling, by way of phone, pager, etc. c) if viewed in terms of a sickness, this "shackling" is very progressed in her system, potentially terminal. Everyone knows someone in that one relationship where all the friends look at each other and go, "Is she NUTS? Why can't she see that he's poison?" Its because she's possessed by him. Physically and mentally. She needs to find a medicine man to smoke out the Bad Medicine. The other aspect of this song is that she left her home in the south to be with this man. I think the actual physical location is more metaphorical. The South representing a more religious, simpler lifestyle while New York is everything new and complex. That's why she complains that her "Fast Horse" "ain't a Maserati." Her body may be with this man in a New York flat wearing Gucci and Louis Vitton but her soul is back in Tennessee in a Sundress and flip flops.
This one gave me a bit of pause. Specifically the line referring to a finger-apple. But I thought back to Police Me and the Blackberry Storm reference and I thought this might be a reference to the iPhone. An Apple product that uses a finger touch interface - a finger-apple. This, I think, is a song about a woman who loves the absolute wrong kind of man. The controlling, "where are you" call every five minutes type of guy. Her shackling is advanced for a couple of reasons, a) its the 21st century and women are STILL shackled in many relationships b) its a technological shackling, by way of phone, pager, etc. c) if viewed in terms of a sickness, this "shackling" is very progressed in her system, potentially terminal. Everyone knows someone in that one relationship where all the friends look at each other and go, "Is she NUTS? Why can't she see that he's poison?" Its because she's possessed by him. Physically and mentally. She needs to find a medicine man to smoke out the Bad Medicine. The other aspect of this song is that she left her home in the south to be with this man. I think the actual physical location is more metaphorical. The South representing a more religious, simpler lifestyle while New York is everything new and complex. That's why she complains that her "Fast Horse" "ain't a Maserati." Her body may be with this man in a New York flat wearing Gucci and Louis Vitton but her soul is back in Tennessee in a Sundress and flip flops.