Well, no one seems to think of it in the terms I do. Everyone talks about a child's point of view with the song. Imagine for a minute, listening to it from an aging parent's perspective. One whose children were their world, totally doted upon and beautiful images of the parents themselves. But with years, the children distant themselves and don't understand the parent (understand where they're coming from). Perhaps even disagree with the entire way the parent views the world and acts, according to how they lived their lives, according to their fate. TO me it means all this and the ends means, simply that, in the end the same fate very possibly awaits the younger adult child with age, and when it happens to them, these things/changes their parent has endured, they will finally understand who their parent is/was, in a way they never had. It will hit them emotionally hard, like a landslide, and they will come back "down to earth" with changed attitudes, the parent hopes it brings them to this realization without destroying them. Of course I see this in the song as it relates to my own life, and all my close friends know, this is the song to be played for my children, when I die.
@thebalancedram Actually, someone thought of it in much the same way you did, and they wrote about it on here, 2 weeks before you did! Read "Deegee87's" comment from February 27th, 2012. She has a +22 positive feedback rating. It's at the top of the page.^
@thebalancedram Actually, someone thought of it in much the same way you did, and they wrote about it on here, 2 weeks before you did! Read "Deegee87's" comment from February 27th, 2012. She has a +22 positive feedback rating. It's at the top of the page.^
@thebalancedram I have a tendency to agree with you, except that I can't see Stevie having the perspective of an older person when she wrote this....
@thebalancedram I have a tendency to agree with you, except that I can't see Stevie having the perspective of an older person when she wrote this....
As i write, it's 2018 and I've heard this song many many times and as an instrumentalist never paid attention to the lyric..but now as someone who qualifies for social security, i see it as both a parent and as a spouse..i am male, but i think this is geared more toward wives who try to put so much into a relationship with a man and as they age..perhaps he loses interest. It is quite something to have to face up to. Others have well stated what parents go through and it's universal. It's one reason why the parable of "The Prodigal Son" in the New Testament is so timeless in it's truth.
@thebalancedram I like your interpretation and resonate with it. Ironically, you posted the day of my son's birthday. Interesting. Especially since I receive a lot of synchronicities and my (adult) son and I have become very strained in our relationship and barely even speak :(
@thebalancedram I like your interpretation and resonate with it. Ironically, you posted the day of my son's birthday. Interesting. Especially since I receive a lot of synchronicities and my (adult) son and I have become very strained in our relationship and barely even speak :(
Well, no one seems to think of it in the terms I do. Everyone talks about a child's point of view with the song. Imagine for a minute, listening to it from an aging parent's perspective. One whose children were their world, totally doted upon and beautiful images of the parents themselves. But with years, the children distant themselves and don't understand the parent (understand where they're coming from). Perhaps even disagree with the entire way the parent views the world and acts, according to how they lived their lives, according to their fate. TO me it means all this and the ends means, simply that, in the end the same fate very possibly awaits the younger adult child with age, and when it happens to them, these things/changes their parent has endured, they will finally understand who their parent is/was, in a way they never had. It will hit them emotionally hard, like a landslide, and they will come back "down to earth" with changed attitudes, the parent hopes it brings them to this realization without destroying them. Of course I see this in the song as it relates to my own life, and all my close friends know, this is the song to be played for my children, when I die.
@thebalancedram Actually, someone thought of it in much the same way you did, and they wrote about it on here, 2 weeks before you did! Read "Deegee87's" comment from February 27th, 2012. She has a +22 positive feedback rating. It's at the top of the page.^
@thebalancedram Actually, someone thought of it in much the same way you did, and they wrote about it on here, 2 weeks before you did! Read "Deegee87's" comment from February 27th, 2012. She has a +22 positive feedback rating. It's at the top of the page.^
@thebalancedram I have a tendency to agree with you, except that I can't see Stevie having the perspective of an older person when she wrote this....
@thebalancedram I have a tendency to agree with you, except that I can't see Stevie having the perspective of an older person when she wrote this....
As i write, it's 2018 and I've heard this song many many times and as an instrumentalist never paid attention to the lyric..but now as someone who qualifies for social security, i see it as both a parent and as a spouse..i am male, but i think this is geared more toward wives who try to put so much into a relationship with a man and as they age..perhaps he loses interest. It is quite something to have to face up to. Others have well stated what parents go through and it's universal. It's one reason why the parable of "The Prodigal Son" in the New Testament is so timeless in it's truth.
@thebalancedram I like your interpretation and resonate with it. Ironically, you posted the day of my son's birthday. Interesting. Especially since I receive a lot of synchronicities and my (adult) son and I have become very strained in our relationship and barely even speak :(
@thebalancedram I like your interpretation and resonate with it. Ironically, you posted the day of my son's birthday. Interesting. Especially since I receive a lot of synchronicities and my (adult) son and I have become very strained in our relationship and barely even speak :(