It is so moving, both lyrically and audibly. I could be stretching things a bit, but I don't think anything will ever sway my interpretation of the song. Yes, I was here with you before, but I am also with you because although you didn't know it, you were and are pregnant and I live inside of you with our child. "There was one life with you before, and one life more, one life more." He is saying to her there is no need to search for me. Ward 0.00 0 ratings0 reviews Want to Read Buy on Amazon Rate this book 303 pages, Hardcover Published JanuBook details & editions Loading interface. The ending, however, is the most moving part: Ancient Archives Among the Cornstalks: Twenty-seven century old documents on stone revealing a commercial enterprise of Mediterranean colonists in the Wabash Valley of mid-America John A. In the end his spirit is asking her, "Will you love me if I change?" which I take to mean that he has changed form and is no longer a tangible being, but still surrounds her like the cornstalks he is "among." He is not "with" the cornstalks-meaning he is not living-he is "among" them-meaning he is buried and his remains are, so to speak, part of the cornstalks. In the song, he is replying from beyond the grave, but she cannot hear him. However, her lover has disappeared and she fears that he is dead. The living person is a woman living alone in her plain country home, which once belonged to both herself and her former lover. I read it as a dialogue between two people: one living and one dead. This is one of my all-time favorite songs, hands-down.
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