"You need me like the wind needs the trees to blow in. Like the moon needs poetry, you need me."
Without the trees to blow into, the wind doesn't get noticed, it just blows on by. The trees are what pay attention to the wind; trees give the wind significance. Without poetry, the moon is just a random chunk of rock in the sky. The way its observers perceive it makes it valuable.
The wind and the moon are given meaning by the trees and poetry respectively, but the wind and the moon don't NEED the trees and poetry. The trees and poetry are helpful to the wind and the moon, but certainly not necessary. The narrator uses the word "need" so many times because he/she is in denial about her knowledge that his/her spouse in San Francisco does not really NEED him/her.
The narrator does, however, need his/her spouse, as shown by the songs's tone of desperation.
"You need me like the wind needs the trees to blow in. Like the moon needs poetry, you need me."
Without the trees to blow into, the wind doesn't get noticed, it just blows on by. The trees are what pay attention to the wind; trees give the wind significance. Without poetry, the moon is just a random chunk of rock in the sky. The way its observers perceive it makes it valuable.
The wind and the moon are given meaning by the trees and poetry respectively, but the wind and the moon don't NEED the trees and poetry. The trees and poetry are helpful to the wind and the moon, but certainly not necessary. The narrator uses the word "need" so many times because he/she is in denial about her knowledge that his/her spouse in San Francisco does not really NEED him/her.
The narrator does, however, need his/her spouse, as shown by the songs's tone of desperation.