Such a surreal, simple yet enigmatic song. Julia's voice captures the man's longing...
I also wonder whether his "Lady of gold" is a metaphor- is she a real woman, or the man's idealisation of one that he can never possess? The fact that he says that she would "fit beautiful in (his) wilderness" make me think that he is not interested in the Lady as a tangible person, but rather in what she represents for him aesthetically/idealistically. If she is real (and not simply a creature of his own mind), I could understand why she would be running away.
Such a surreal, simple yet enigmatic song. Julia's voice captures the man's longing...
I also wonder whether his "Lady of gold" is a metaphor- is she a real woman, or the man's idealisation of one that he can never possess? The fact that he says that she would "fit beautiful in (his) wilderness" make me think that he is not interested in the Lady as a tangible person, but rather in what she represents for him aesthetically/idealistically. If she is real (and not simply a creature of his own mind), I could understand why she would be running away.