My Joni phase is back full throttle and this song particularly has had me by the throat. I was just crying about it in the bathroom earlier. The enchanting musical arrangement pulled me in initially unaware of the poeticism of the lyrics. The desperation for all sorts; the through line being the inherent desire for love. The traditional love with "the bells and lace" which she's ached for since she was a child, chasing the stimulation to illusions that love provided. Even grown she catches herself, "A blank face at the window stares and stares and stares and stares", at " the long white dress of love/ On a storefront mannequin" even though she knows better;
"Love's a repetitious danger
You'd think I'd be accustomed to
Well, I do accept the changes
At least better than I used to do"
This song makes me sick, I'm so scared; hopeless like "a candle for my love luck" as "eighteen bucks went up in smoke".
edit: so it's been 9 months and ive experienced ALOT... after my first relationship and thus breakup with a boy, my interpretation of this song is now compulsive heterosexuality 🤪 ermm but also idk, idk who i like cause idk who likes me LOL
My Joni phase is back full throttle and this song particularly has had me by the throat. I was just crying about it in the bathroom earlier. The enchanting musical arrangement pulled me in initially unaware of the poeticism of the lyrics. The desperation for all sorts; the through line being the inherent desire for love. The traditional love with "the bells and lace" which she's ached for since she was a child, chasing the stimulation to illusions that love provided. Even grown she catches herself, "A blank face at the window stares and stares and stares and stares", at " the long white dress of love/ On a storefront mannequin" even though she knows better; "Love's a repetitious danger You'd think I'd be accustomed to Well, I do accept the changes At least better than I used to do"
This song makes me sick, I'm so scared; hopeless like "a candle for my love luck" as "eighteen bucks went up in smoke".
edit: so it's been 9 months and ive experienced ALOT... after my first relationship and thus breakup with a boy, my interpretation of this song is now compulsive heterosexuality 🤪 ermm but also idk, idk who i like cause idk who likes me LOL
HELLPPPPPP ME JONI GAWDDDDDD
[Edit: life update]