That was actually pretty interesting, reds, I didn't know any of that! The saw the song as being kinda like the final result of living the life Calling And Not Calling set out. After a while, she (well, it's not said, but I think the narrator is probably Shannon Wilsey) gets more and more introverted and reclusive, looking back on the groupie life she used to have before she became what she was now- and so she wants it back but it'll never happen, and the fire of yearning has turned on her- becoming a desctructive force in her life.
What I don't understand is the final verse, and what the "morning starship" is. It sounds like it could be suicide, but it's way more optimistic-sounding like that. It would fit, though- "this ship isn't coming down" would imply that. And here's a theory- what if "this man left almost passed out" is John Allyn Smith, hero of the OTHER last track of the double album? Now, he DID kill himself, so that fits with that interpretation, and- and I guess here's the selling point of that interpretation for me- so did Shannon Wilsey, due in part to all her failed relationships with rock stars leaving her with depression. So I suppose this is the perfect song to end on- filling in the very large gap and entire centrepoint of the whole double-album, between Title Track, at the end of her groupie career, and Savannah Smiles, where she's found dead.
That was actually pretty interesting, reds, I didn't know any of that! The saw the song as being kinda like the final result of living the life Calling And Not Calling set out. After a while, she (well, it's not said, but I think the narrator is probably Shannon Wilsey) gets more and more introverted and reclusive, looking back on the groupie life she used to have before she became what she was now- and so she wants it back but it'll never happen, and the fire of yearning has turned on her- becoming a desctructive force in her life.
What I don't understand is the final verse, and what the "morning starship" is. It sounds like it could be suicide, but it's way more optimistic-sounding like that. It would fit, though- "this ship isn't coming down" would imply that. And here's a theory- what if "this man left almost passed out" is John Allyn Smith, hero of the OTHER last track of the double album? Now, he DID kill himself, so that fits with that interpretation, and- and I guess here's the selling point of that interpretation for me- so did Shannon Wilsey, due in part to all her failed relationships with rock stars leaving her with depression. So I suppose this is the perfect song to end on- filling in the very large gap and entire centrepoint of the whole double-album, between Title Track, at the end of her groupie career, and Savannah Smiles, where she's found dead.