I told you this was gonna be free-association. When Paul mentioned Pink Floyd’s ‘Grantchester Meadows’ yesterday, I immediately thought of one of my fave British folk rock songs of all time. Although different profound meetings have been ascribed to the song’s lyrics, writer Richard Thompson said in an interview with Mojo magazine, “”The hardest thing about being a 17-year-old songwriter is that you’re embarrassed – you’re never going to write a song saying, ‘These are my feelings, I love you.’ So I was trying to find some semi-veiled language that conveyed something to somebody somehow but which didn’t really say anything up front. It’s a slightly naïve song, a little obscure. I don’t even know what it means.”
Which doesn’t make it any less profound. And, on Nov. 1, the falling leaves seem particularly apropos:
