On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Jessica Gockley wrote:
Since my name is Jessica Foxinasnow and all, i thought i could give this one a shot. I'm pretty sure the first stanza really is just about a lonely fox, but then the metaphor carries over into the second, which is the one that i related to so much i named myself after the song. It's about a lonely girl, bookwormish and full of ideas, who just can't seem to relate to the people around her. Her friends think she's kind of weird, and she
OK, thanks very much for such a thoughtful answer. I really do wonder a lot about B&S's lyrics as they seem to contain a lot of double entenre, metaphor and what have you. Anyway, I guess the reason I couldn't relate to they lyrics at first was because it's been a long time since I've been that age! (I'm 28, and have survived painful school days, social cliques, etc). Yet, it does seem to describe precisely what I was as a child too, I was chubby, and liked nothing more than to sit around reading "The Little Princess" by Frances Hodgeson Burnett. I also read "Wuthering Heights" but I preferred "Jane Eyre." I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I felt too much, but I was certainly a social outcast. Then I discovered punk and became a rebel, still a social outcast, but at now least with a manifesto and a subculture. A friend of mine once said, "you know, if we weren't into this kind of music, we'd all be really dorky." Anyway, thanks Jessica, yours was just the answer I was looking for! Heatherita +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+