Gary Zack wrote: > > Yes Lori, I agree. The "pornographic watch" is the priest > being able to look but not touch (looking and longing on the > sly) and I always took "sure it's stricken from your > uniform, but you can't get it out of your eyes"
I've always taken it that way, too, rather than it being an actual physical wristwatch. I considered it more of an emotional thing within the priest that he couldn't hide or subdue and that an attentive person such as Joni would notice its small outward signs. > to mean that > he isn't wearing his clerical collar, The first Joni lyric that really intrigued me was: "He was wearing his father's tie." Did he actually borrow his biological father's tie that morning? Or is she referring to the Roman collar, his God as Father "tie", that priests wear? It could be either I think. Wasn't there a discussion a while ago that "The Priest" was about Leonard Cohen? (That was a surprise to me.) It makes the song even more interesting to think that it's not even about an actual vow-taking priest, but about someone who feels and acts as though he is, even to the point of not being able to freely "look". Debra Shea
