Shriner's Park... This is one of my favorite songs of all time and Melissa's best work. I think that it might be about her first love, or first serious love/sexual experience, and the confusion she felt by her sexuality (Slip into the car/trying to make some sense). I haven't read her memoir in a while, but I know she had a pretty significant relationship at 17, referenced also in Fearless Love and Ain't it Heavy. It's possible that the girl she's writing to/about went into a mental hospital or a metaphorical prison in terms of a false lifestyle. I don't get the feeling that either of them are in a physical prison though...
At any rate, it's a while later in her life, and Melissa is wondering what ever happened to that girl (Jamie might have been her name in the book, I think that's the one) and where she is now. Reminiscing. I went to a school named Shrine and so looking back at a first love at 17 in Shriner's Park always really hits home.
Shriner's Park... This is one of my favorite songs of all time and Melissa's best work. I think that it might be about her first love, or first serious love/sexual experience, and the confusion she felt by her sexuality (Slip into the car/trying to make some sense). I haven't read her memoir in a while, but I know she had a pretty significant relationship at 17, referenced also in Fearless Love and Ain't it Heavy. It's possible that the girl she's writing to/about went into a mental hospital or a metaphorical prison in terms of a false lifestyle. I don't get the feeling that either of them are in a physical prison though... At any rate, it's a while later in her life, and Melissa is wondering what ever happened to that girl (Jamie might have been her name in the book, I think that's the one) and where she is now. Reminiscing. I went to a school named Shrine and so looking back at a first love at 17 in Shriner's Park always really hits home.