PAUL PETERSON wrote: > I always associated this refrain with what I always felt was the key > confessional element of the song: "Maybe I've never really loved, I guess > that is the truth". The false alarm of every sexual relationship that felt > like love but wasn't.
That is exactly how I've always interpreted the line. The beauty of Joni's brilliant lyrics is that they can mean the same, or so many different, things to so many different people. Jerry np: Shawn Colvin - Christmas Time Is Here