I read on one of the youtube comments and someone that she had a miscarriage a while back, and that if her daughter were alive when she wrote that song then that's how old she'd be. "You'd be thirteen, I'd be thirty-five."
On first listening it seemed to me it was about an abortion or miscarriage - it's the counter-factual 'you'd be', 'i'd be' as you say... But then the verses alluding to escape and shelter don't seem to fit; to shelter from what? The more obvious fantasy would be to live normally with your progeny...
On first listening it seemed to me it was about an abortion or miscarriage - it's the counter-factual 'you'd be', 'i'd be' as you say... But then the verses alluding to escape and shelter don't seem to fit; to shelter from what? The more obvious fantasy would be to live normally with your progeny...
I read on one of the youtube comments and someone that she had a miscarriage a while back, and that if her daughter were alive when she wrote that song then that's how old she'd be. "You'd be thirteen, I'd be thirty-five."
On first listening it seemed to me it was about an abortion or miscarriage - it's the counter-factual 'you'd be', 'i'd be' as you say... But then the verses alluding to escape and shelter don't seem to fit; to shelter from what? The more obvious fantasy would be to live normally with your progeny...
On first listening it seemed to me it was about an abortion or miscarriage - it's the counter-factual 'you'd be', 'i'd be' as you say... But then the verses alluding to escape and shelter don't seem to fit; to shelter from what? The more obvious fantasy would be to live normally with your progeny...