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Re: Homophobia (Was: Oh by the way)

From: heisjohn@juno.com
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 18:55:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Homophobia (Was: Oh by the way)
To: love-hounds@gryphon.com

Will wrote:
>> Kim wrote:
>> There is a difference between 'what a song means to me' and
>> 'what a song is about' (as in 'what is the story the song is
telling').
>
>Is there? Its this interpretation thing again, isn't it...... 
>
>Lets take Cloudbusting....
>
>"Like my Yo-yo that glowed in the dark
> What made it special made it dangerous,
> So I bury it and forget"
>
>Hmm, sound pretty much like MY teenage years!
>

Wow!  I can't relate to this at all.  If *MY* yo-yo glowed in the dark
when I was a teenager, I certainly wouldn't have buried it!  ...or am I
missing something here?  :-)

John