For years I assumed this song was about a guy who was in love with a woman who was much richer and socially elevated than he was, and that she was in the hospital for some sort of mental breakdown or even a suicide attempt.
But thinking of it now in a more modern, less naive, context the narrator seems more like a stalker. “Let me back into your life”? Does he follow this woman around both loving and hating her? Did he do something to her that resulted in her hospitalization? Did he injure her?
I don’t know - probably I’m way off - seems a little dark for Jonathan Richman.
For years I assumed this song was about a guy who was in love with a woman who was much richer and socially elevated than he was, and that she was in the hospital for some sort of mental breakdown or even a suicide attempt.
But thinking of it now in a more modern, less naive, context the narrator seems more like a stalker. “Let me back into your life”? Does he follow this woman around both loving and hating her? Did he do something to her that resulted in her hospitalization? Did he injure her?
I don’t know - probably I’m way off - seems a little dark for Jonathan Richman.