Yes there is a happy ending to the tale, kinda. It's not really possible for an old woman to disguise herself as a younger one up close (I accept this is a pop song) and the husband not recognising his wife but merely thinking she looks familiar seems like something's up. I read this song, this bit of absurd theatre, as the husband knowing what she's up to all along. The elderly playwright and his slightly older wife, the famous ex-actress is growing old faster than he, losing her grip in reality, retreating from him into silence. He goes along with the subterfuge out of love for his wife, to be part of her drama rather than to be nothing. It is not the first time she has acted out this game, and indeed it was he who originally wrote the script for the hit 1928 play 'Babushka'. Ba-Bush-Ka ... she covered her tracks by spelling it with an OO, but there was an older Kate aged 'today' under that disguise.
Yes there is a happy ending to the tale, kinda. It's not really possible for an old woman to disguise herself as a younger one up close (I accept this is a pop song) and the husband not recognising his wife but merely thinking she looks familiar seems like something's up. I read this song, this bit of absurd theatre, as the husband knowing what she's up to all along. The elderly playwright and his slightly older wife, the famous ex-actress is growing old faster than he, losing her grip in reality, retreating from him into silence. He goes along with the subterfuge out of love for his wife, to be part of her drama rather than to be nothing. It is not the first time she has acted out this game, and indeed it was he who originally wrote the script for the hit 1928 play 'Babushka'. Ba-Bush-Ka ... she covered her tracks by spelling it with an OO, but there was an older Kate aged 'today' under that disguise.