Reply To: Lyrics and gender
i was wondering the other day why the themes in always the moon or someone is crazy should bug me particularly more than in, for instance, soft rocked, , and what occurred to me was that the latter very clearly establishes how unreliable the narrator is, whereas the former two don't make any suggestion that the narrator might be fallible. this way, in soft rocked, it's very clear who the joke is on, whereas that's not the case at all in always the moon, and arguably mostly unclear in someone is crazy. (we know the narrator thinks the lady in question is crazy, but that's a fairly common accusation from self-absorbed men who aren't getting their way, as well as men who are actually interacting with a crazy lady.)
of course this thread has been pretty thoroughly chewed over, so feel free to let it slide back down into the depths. i just had the aforementioned revelation recently and felt i had to share it.