Janine wrote: > I, too, have always felt Electricity was about my beloved JT who had to have > torn her heart out, of course, I have to blame it on that darn Cold Blue Steel > and Sweet Fire. I have also wondered if this song was not in response to > Carly's frustrations with JT? She obviously still wants a connection to him > despite the Minus's current lovelessness.
My next door neighbor in the college dorm was as much into Carly as I was into Joni and would talk to me about the JT connection. She's the one that alerted me to Carly's song "No Secrets" and said it there was a put down to Joni in it. I've posted the lyrics below. If true, I thought maybe Joni would see the song as sort of a gloat and thought Electricity was her rejoinder. Both albums were released in November 1972. Speaking of Robbie Cavolina, he once told me that Carly and Joni have long been very good friends, so bygones are bygones. ;-) Kakki (We Have) NO SECRETS (Carly Simon) We have no secrets We tell each other everything About the lovers in the past And why they didn't last We share a cast of characters from A to Z We know each others fantasies And though we know each other better when we explore Sometimes I wish Often I wish That I never knew some of those secrets of yours The water was cold The beach was empty but for one Now you were lying in the sun Wanting and needing no-one Then some child came, you never asked for her to come She drank a pint of your Rum And later when you told me You aid she was a bore Sometimes I wish Often I wish That I never knew some of those secrets of yours In the name of honesty, in the name of what is fair You always answer my questions But they don't always answer my prayers And though I know you say that it's me that you adore Sometimes I wish Often I wish That I never, never, never knew Some of those secrets of yours Some of those secrets of yours Some of those secrets of yours We have no secrets Telling each other most everything now
