re:ninth wave

[Jack <noone04@ibm.net>]

I was thinking about the Ninth Wave today, and decided to listen to
the baktabak interview disc for The Dreaming and HOL. What I realised
I'd forgotten about was that TNW isn't about a woman (i.e. kate) but a
man who spends a night in the water. She's got such a storytelling
quality to her music that you don't always realise she's not talking
about herself. Cloudbusting and Mother Stands For Comfort are other
songs that feature male characters. Actually, I didn't know what MSFC
was about until about '89, when a friend talked to me about Kate's
explanation of the song. I had thought until that point that it was a
beautiful song about a mother's acceptance of her daughter. heh heh heh.
. .
                                                      ~Jack~