It may be a story of her picking up a groupie-type guy, of the starving-artist / starving-guitarist type, for a one-night stand, with him thinking he loves her based on what he knows of her public persona. She has repeatedly made comments to the effect that people think they know her but they don't, that you can't assume that all of her songs are autobiographical, and that the mass media picture of her is at best deceptive. Nevertheless, there seems to be a larger-than-usual number of guys (and girls, I suspect) who seem to really think that they are in love with her, despite never having had any real personal interaction with her. So she's out on the road, looking for a companion for the evening, meets a guy who adores her, and she is flattered and thinks it's sweet, but ultimately thinks the guy doesn't really have a clue, and doesn't really interest her for even the intermediate term. Or at least, I think that's a reasonably coherent theory.
It may be a story of her picking up a groupie-type guy, of the starving-artist / starving-guitarist type, for a one-night stand, with him thinking he loves her based on what he knows of her public persona. She has repeatedly made comments to the effect that people think they know her but they don't, that you can't assume that all of her songs are autobiographical, and that the mass media picture of her is at best deceptive. Nevertheless, there seems to be a larger-than-usual number of guys (and girls, I suspect) who seem to really think that they are in love with her, despite never having had any real personal interaction with her. So she's out on the road, looking for a companion for the evening, meets a guy who adores her, and she is flattered and thinks it's sweet, but ultimately thinks the guy doesn't really have a clue, and doesn't really interest her for even the intermediate term. Or at least, I think that's a reasonably coherent theory.