I think "July Flame" is not a person or a thing but an embodiment of that summer which represents so much for her. When she says "can I call you mine" she wants to feel all those things forever, live endlessly in that one summer, though it might very well have been bitter-sweet.
I think "July Flame" is not a person or a thing but an embodiment of that summer which represents so much for her. When she says "can I call you mine" she wants to feel all those things forever, live endlessly in that one summer, though it might very well have been bitter-sweet.
Beautiful song, my first listen to Laura Veirs.