Re:

[Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>]

ac506@lafn.org (Lisa Morton) wrote:
> Recently I've been puzzling over the content of "Under the Ivy".
> I seem to recall a quote in "THE GARDEN" where Kate, after being
> unusually evasive regarding the meaning of the song, offers up something
> to the effect of "...it may be about two people leaving a party to
> make love."  Now I've been trying to get this out of the song, and
> finally realized that this is hopeless.  It seems plain to me that
> the song is about an adult desperately trying to regain the innocence
> of safety, the childhood sense that everything is or will be fine.

Do this two meanings have to contradict each other? There can indeed be
such feelings involved in a sexual encounter.

anders