I'm surprised no one has touched this one. TS is obviously directed to a fiction writer. The constant refrain: "there is fiction in the space between" shows that Tracy and this "person" have two different recollections of their relationship (that is obviously now over). Tracy's recollection (as far as she's concerned) is true, and the writer's is fictional. Tracy tells her ex that just because she writes things down, doesn't mean that she's 'not just telling stories.' Tracy goes on to show us how mellowdramatic her ex is as she paint tracy as "the scary monster" who 'eats the city as [she] leaves the scene'. But in truth when her ex wakes up from the nightmare there is no one but her standing.
But apparently everyone expects mellowdrama from her author-ex and Tracy accepts that its not about her, its about how Alice Walker OOPS!, i mean... this "author" needs to keep being this dazzling author of the sad and sordid story in the public's eye.
Tracy, you are the one that deserves the award for crafting YOUR rememberance of the relationship in this way!! I applaud your honesty!! And while it may not have generated the sales or mass appeal of other albums, "Telling Stories" is the Hejira of my generation!!
I'm surprised no one has touched this one. TS is obviously directed to a fiction writer. The constant refrain: "there is fiction in the space between" shows that Tracy and this "person" have two different recollections of their relationship (that is obviously now over). Tracy's recollection (as far as she's concerned) is true, and the writer's is fictional. Tracy tells her ex that just because she writes things down, doesn't mean that she's 'not just telling stories.' Tracy goes on to show us how mellowdramatic her ex is as she paint tracy as "the scary monster" who 'eats the city as [she] leaves the scene'. But in truth when her ex wakes up from the nightmare there is no one but her standing. But apparently everyone expects mellowdrama from her author-ex and Tracy accepts that its not about her, its about how Alice Walker OOPS!, i mean... this "author" needs to keep being this dazzling author of the sad and sordid story in the public's eye. Tracy, you are the one that deserves the award for crafting YOUR rememberance of the relationship in this way!! I applaud your honesty!! And while it may not have generated the sales or mass appeal of other albums, "Telling Stories" is the Hejira of my generation!!