Lyric discussion by mohammad11 

Cover art for Runaway Wind lyrics by Paul Westerberg

Basically a song to a woman who has lost her dreams and perhaps gotten domesticated. Traded looking at stars through a telescope, to reading gossip of peeping through keyholes into other people's lives.

She needs to break away like a run away wind.

Archly, may be from someone who wants to have an affair with someone married or tied down by a situation.

Paul often writes about women (Merry Go Round), but I wonder if this is autobiographical and he is the woman is the song. Didn't he once say the femme in Merry Go Round was really him.

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