Play Me Lyrics

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Cover art for Play Me lyrics by Neil Diamond

Just a few random thoughts of this song (as the story I see in it)...

She was morning And I was night time I one day woke up To find her lying Beside my bed I softly said "Come take me"

Interesting. Why was she lying beside his bed? Kind of gives the impression she was waiting for him to become aware of her presence. Like she'd been waiting for him for awhile.

Rhyme that sprang from me Warmed the night And what was right Became me

And what was right, became me....He became what was "right", the better man? Or he felt that through her eyes he could do no wrong? Or even that what was right looked more becoming, more attractive, to him because of her presence.

And so it was That I came to travel Upon a road That was thorned and narrow Another place Another grace Would save me

So at some point he decides to leave her, I think. A thorned and narrow road, too narrow, I'm guessing, for more than one to travel. Another place, another grace... Something else destined to save him. Fame? Fortune? Almost a religious connotation to those words.

You are the sun I am the moon You are the words I am the tune Play me

Echoed three times. The third time, is it a looking back to the earlier memories of her? Or is he speaking to the new entity that he has chosen to follow instead...

My Interpretation