The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31037   Message #401298
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-Feb-01 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: Meaning of 'Weep for Jamie'?
Subject: RE: Meaning of 'Weep for Jamie'?
Hi, Mark - I think you have the lyrics pretty close to the original Peter Yarrow composition, but you can Click here to get to the official lyrics at the PP&M Website. I checked the liner notes for the album, and they said nothing about the song.

Album 1700 was a departure from their previous work, but I've always kinda liked it.

-Joe Offer-

WEEP FOR JAMIE
Peter Yarrow-Pepamar Music Corp- ASCAP

The other side of Jamie's door is aching loneliness.
One, two, three, four,
she dances with the ancient fears,
with porcelain smiles and wetless tears,

(Chorus)
Weep for Jamie.
For the bones that tear at her flesh inside,
Weep for Jamie,
She lives in the land where her father died.

Don't try to answer her helpless call,
She can't hear your words she feels nothing at all.
With no tomorrow promised by today.
She's the child of emptiness yesterday.

(Chorus)

I'll sing you one of a song without an end,
I'll sing you two of a tree that cannot bend,
I'll sing you three of a wound* that never filled,
And the fourth deepest wound and the love that it killed.

(Chorus)

*womb never filled????