Thursday, March 7, 2024

Dairy Queen - Indigo Girls

Dairy Queen - Indigo Girls
3:47
All That We Let In, 2004
Written by Amy Ray

A song about a love that went awry somewhere; the addressee found being true "hard to do."  Ray muses on how love can flicker and fade: "Ain't it funny how we lose one day / And a lifetime slips away."  But what sets this apart fro other lost love song is Ray's empathetic, humanistic view.  The love is still there; parts of you are always in the one you once loved.  The memories are good enough for a lifetime. "At least you were mine / If not for all time / Enough to hold / Or at least enough for me to hold you."  I am always enthralled by Ray's poetic and rational worldview.

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