This song is about his wife Karen Elson. They met during the filming of the blue orchid video, a time period in which Jack was suffering a lot of alienation from the world. He didn't want to succumb into the cliche ways of a rock star, aching to stay true to his working class origins. In live versions of this song, you can hear jack modifying the lyrics from the first chorus to "then, i looked over, just in time, to see her little redhead smiling back at me and saying everything's OK".His wife Karen has strikingly wonderful red hair, they fell in love so quickly, that they got married 3 weeks into knowing each other in an amazonian jungle. I don't know and I don't care if Jack is into drugs, but I can tell that this is obviously a love song, the most heartfelt he's probably written in his life.
This song is about his wife Karen Elson. They met during the filming of the blue orchid video, a time period in which Jack was suffering a lot of alienation from the world. He didn't want to succumb into the cliche ways of a rock star, aching to stay true to his working class origins. In live versions of this song, you can hear jack modifying the lyrics from the first chorus to "then, i looked over, just in time, to see her little redhead smiling back at me and saying everything's OK".His wife Karen has strikingly wonderful red hair, they fell in love so quickly, that they got married 3 weeks into knowing each other in an amazonian jungle. I don't know and I don't care if Jack is into drugs, but I can tell that this is obviously a love song, the most heartfelt he's probably written in his life.