This song is one of the best songs to illustrate my own desperation to live wholly.
Joanna is talking about daydreaming and then going after your dreams. When we are children, we are told we can be whatever we want to be. Beginning our journey of life, our fates are malleable; we really can become anything, we can create our own worlds, our own fates. But the methods of seeing our dreams come true are not always as sturdy as the longing. So Joanna's personal dream is represented by sailing. Being out in the wind and the air, feeling the world and experiencing it all fully. So her method would be a ship. But the nautical things, the ships and the anchors and sails, they are all material things that cannot stand up and brace the immense dreams of sailing. They cannot possibly have the same passion to support the dreams. Therefore, she must figure out how to live out her dream using only herself. Then she creates her own world in which sailing is not inhibited by the winter day or the fallibilty of ships. She finds the passion and the presence of a living dream inside her living room. She can lose herself in her imagination, in books, in love. The words she uses illuminates the fragility of such a dream: "a little wicker beetle shell" instead of "a rocking chair" shows how she embraces these belongings as if they are the heart of life.
Oh my love! Oh! It was a funny little thing, to be the ones to've seen. She is joyous knowing she has found the secret to life, the meaning to hers at least, which is to pursue dreams through imagination and they will always come true. She is expressing her thrill at knowing she is in love and able to do exactly what she should to be happy. She realizes how miserable much of the world is, and her simple, beautiful interpretation of life is a gift that she is celebrating possesion of.
My favorite part: "The sight of bridges and balloons / makes calm canaries irritable." Seeing the potential for dreams to come true but being unable to reach them absolutely irritates the seekers.I picture a canary sitting in a small cage by a window, watching people walk numbly over a bridge in their every day tasks, watching children with irritated mothers skip to a hot air balloon begging to take a ride. The canaries, who are birds representing domestic freedom (they should be able to fly as high as that balloon and to pass over the river, but being in a small cage, they cannot be content unless they can dream). Dissatisfied people too quickly overlook the treasures in their lives. Knowing that a dream really can come true makes the dreamers restless.
These canaries caw and claw because they want to be outside with the air. I am not positive about the next few lines, but the milky moon touching hearts larger than a thimble really resonates. To someone who may appreciate it, who really feels the air on his/her skin, and who can really see the moonlight around them, one small dose of this wonder will fill one up. Life is really worth living when you can smell the honeysuckle and feel the dew beneath your toes.
I am a dreamer, and this song is just so beautiful. It assures me that I can have anything I want if I appreciate what I get. Such a simple sound, but the lyrics are magical.
This song is one of the best songs to illustrate my own desperation to live wholly.
Joanna is talking about daydreaming and then going after your dreams. When we are children, we are told we can be whatever we want to be. Beginning our journey of life, our fates are malleable; we really can become anything, we can create our own worlds, our own fates. But the methods of seeing our dreams come true are not always as sturdy as the longing. So Joanna's personal dream is represented by sailing. Being out in the wind and the air, feeling the world and experiencing it all fully. So her method would be a ship. But the nautical things, the ships and the anchors and sails, they are all material things that cannot stand up and brace the immense dreams of sailing. They cannot possibly have the same passion to support the dreams. Therefore, she must figure out how to live out her dream using only herself. Then she creates her own world in which sailing is not inhibited by the winter day or the fallibilty of ships. She finds the passion and the presence of a living dream inside her living room. She can lose herself in her imagination, in books, in love. The words she uses illuminates the fragility of such a dream: "a little wicker beetle shell" instead of "a rocking chair" shows how she embraces these belongings as if they are the heart of life.
Oh my love! Oh! It was a funny little thing, to be the ones to've seen. She is joyous knowing she has found the secret to life, the meaning to hers at least, which is to pursue dreams through imagination and they will always come true. She is expressing her thrill at knowing she is in love and able to do exactly what she should to be happy. She realizes how miserable much of the world is, and her simple, beautiful interpretation of life is a gift that she is celebrating possesion of.
My favorite part: "The sight of bridges and balloons / makes calm canaries irritable." Seeing the potential for dreams to come true but being unable to reach them absolutely irritates the seekers.I picture a canary sitting in a small cage by a window, watching people walk numbly over a bridge in their every day tasks, watching children with irritated mothers skip to a hot air balloon begging to take a ride. The canaries, who are birds representing domestic freedom (they should be able to fly as high as that balloon and to pass over the river, but being in a small cage, they cannot be content unless they can dream). Dissatisfied people too quickly overlook the treasures in their lives. Knowing that a dream really can come true makes the dreamers restless.
These canaries caw and claw because they want to be outside with the air. I am not positive about the next few lines, but the milky moon touching hearts larger than a thimble really resonates. To someone who may appreciate it, who really feels the air on his/her skin, and who can really see the moonlight around them, one small dose of this wonder will fill one up. Life is really worth living when you can smell the honeysuckle and feel the dew beneath your toes.
I am a dreamer, and this song is just so beautiful. It assures me that I can have anything I want if I appreciate what I get. Such a simple sound, but the lyrics are magical.