Stockton Gala Days Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Snidley 

Cover art for Stockton Gala Days lyrics by 10,000 Maniacs

I always pictured a child who is in an abusive home that learns to cope and survive by finding a secret place (think Secret Garden). I always pictured it as two sisters (where the lyricist was the younger), and she is looking back in retrospect and saying to the other, that she will never know what those moments of serenity meant to her.