From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #185 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Wednesday, October 17 2012 Volume 12 : Number 185 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] RE: Last Fare 1 v. 2 couples [Peter Booth Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Last Fare 1 v. 2 couples At a concert in a very small venue I once said "is that song about one couple or two?" (The venue was so small I literally was talking from the audience.) He said "two". I said, "I think you're wrong" and he responded with something like "whatever. Think what you want." (He wasn't flippant and that's not close to a direct quote.) Since then I've tried to consciously listen to the song as two couples and it makes the song 100% different and 100% about the cabbie. Seems much more powerful when listening from that framework. So I guess RS was right. PB Sent from my iPhone. On Oct 17, 2012, at 5:48 PM, John Walkey wrote: Nded > Well, if the man himself says it's two different couples, I guess that was the > "framer's original intent" to get all Supremes about it. > > But in the music video of my mind's eye I see a couple with the woman > enormously pregnant (which is why he helps her into the cab) in some time > period shortly after 9-11 (have to check meteorological records to see if it > rained in the days following, I don't recall). Then months later he sees > "them" meaning the same couple in front of Saint Luke's at the baptism of the > baby who was born in the intervening months. It makes for a better video than > two different couples, in my head at least... But then I've never been much > of an originalist.... > > ~John ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #185 ************************************