As a onetime songwriter (e.g. "Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger," "Green Summertime," for which I wrote lyrics, Robin & Linda Williams the melodies), I was always surprised at what reviewers and other listeners heard as opposed to what I meant. I didn't fight it; rather, I decided that whatever a song means to an individual is what the song means.

Still, I confess to cringing at the cavalier disregard for the writer's clear statement of what the Clohinne song (which has been a favorite of mine since I first heard it years ago) actually addresses. Surely the composer knows SOMETHING about that.