Coming up towards Christmas with a broken heart. 'Wishing you had a river you could skate away. on ' Joni is singing reputably about her broken relationship with Graham Nash. But the subject matter is ultimately far more interesting. Joni's subject matter is often love but the individual biographical specifics are not as interesting as the idea of love and the lies we tell ourselves about it..
Often when you're in love you say you're going to be in love ith the same person in the same way forever. But the metaphor of the river here is very powerful. When someone you love dies you assume that everything stops. But of course it never does . And that's something you must come to terms with . To try to live in the moment.
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