It's hard to know what's in an artists mind. Patty does write songs from a male perspective sometimes, On Top of The World is one. Something about this feels like a woman identifying with women or womanhood. I'm not sure. How about she's writing it from the viewpoint of a female songwriter being inspired by women and womanhood? She does this in Mary. It's possible she's doing it here too: "This what I write, this is our condition and I feel for you all, the ones in restaurant (she was a waitress), ones working overtime, the ones on the telephone (only a woman knows what a woman does on the phone for so long) the ones all alone." I just think the song is taking in too much breadth to be from a male view. I don't think even the finest tuned ladies man considers the girls with their washing rags. In saying careful how you bend me she's saying be careful how you move me in my writing, the way I empathise with you, because if anyone ever felt the human experience in her songs it's Patty G. I agree to hear and see Patty is to be in love: though we "don't even no why and nobody's crying"
It's hard to know what's in an artists mind. Patty does write songs from a male perspective sometimes, On Top of The World is one. Something about this feels like a woman identifying with women or womanhood. I'm not sure. How about she's writing it from the viewpoint of a female songwriter being inspired by women and womanhood? She does this in Mary. It's possible she's doing it here too: "This what I write, this is our condition and I feel for you all, the ones in restaurant (she was a waitress), ones working overtime, the ones on the telephone (only a woman knows what a woman does on the phone for so long) the ones all alone." I just think the song is taking in too much breadth to be from a male view. I don't think even the finest tuned ladies man considers the girls with their washing rags. In saying careful how you bend me she's saying be careful how you move me in my writing, the way I empathise with you, because if anyone ever felt the human experience in her songs it's Patty G. I agree to hear and see Patty is to be in love: though we "don't even no why and nobody's crying"