Bob wrote: > <<Well the technical manual's busy > She's not going to fix it up too easy>> > > Here's an interesting metaphor...who's her "technical manual"? Myrtle, her > mother? Or a close friend? Or a professional therapist? Regardless of who it > is specifically, the person is not too receptive to being the resource that > Joni hopes she would be.
That was a great analysis, Bob - and pretty much how I've always interpreted the song. But I do have another interpretation of the lines above. I always thought "the technical manual's busy" meant that it was busy, as in too fussy, or too convoluted for her to make sense of it. In other words, she's got a huge amount of advice about how to conduct herself in the relationship, and she can't decide which advice is best. Just another take on the song, but you know there may be more..... probably as many as there are members of this list, at least! Hell P.S. Welcome, Matt! ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
