She's complaining, all getting riled up about how they "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." She sings all this about how she's outraged, how its just awful.
But that's not really true. In fact, she is just pouring all her negative emotions into this facade of environmental awareness, when, in fact, she is devastated by the loss of her lover. She goes to great lengths to try and disguise her sadness with anger at the people who destroyed paradise, but her real pain shows through at the chorus, and, eventually, during the bridge, when the real reason for her despair and anger and everything reveals itself--if only for two lines; her walls are up pretty high, and this is just a momentary lapse of willpower.
So, yeah. This song is about denial. And it is done perfectly.
lightningrod14, This is a very deep, and beautiful interpretation of the song. I am sure many of us have the feeling that this song is not merely about environmental concern. Everything we people do, and create is a reaction to what we experience...so I think the true meaning lies behind whatever the writer was going through in her life at the time it was written.
lightningrod14, This is a very deep, and beautiful interpretation of the song. I am sure many of us have the feeling that this song is not merely about environmental concern. Everything we people do, and create is a reaction to what we experience...so I think the true meaning lies behind whatever the writer was going through in her life at the time it was written.
I've always interpreted this song like this:
She's complaining, all getting riled up about how they "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." She sings all this about how she's outraged, how its just awful.
But that's not really true. In fact, she is just pouring all her negative emotions into this facade of environmental awareness, when, in fact, she is devastated by the loss of her lover. She goes to great lengths to try and disguise her sadness with anger at the people who destroyed paradise, but her real pain shows through at the chorus, and, eventually, during the bridge, when the real reason for her despair and anger and everything reveals itself--if only for two lines; her walls are up pretty high, and this is just a momentary lapse of willpower.
So, yeah. This song is about denial. And it is done perfectly.
lightningrod14, This is a very deep, and beautiful interpretation of the song. I am sure many of us have the feeling that this song is not merely about environmental concern. Everything we people do, and create is a reaction to what we experience...so I think the true meaning lies behind whatever the writer was going through in her life at the time it was written.
lightningrod14, This is a very deep, and beautiful interpretation of the song. I am sure many of us have the feeling that this song is not merely about environmental concern. Everything we people do, and create is a reaction to what we experience...so I think the true meaning lies behind whatever the writer was going through in her life at the time it was written.