August 28, 2002
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Music of the Dark Lady
Two journal notes below deal with the general mythology of the Dark Lady. This note, more personal, deals with a particular incarnation of this Lady that certain songs from this 1981 album remind me of.
Waiting for a Girl Like You,
Urgent,
and especially Woman in Black:
She draws me in
But she teaches me well
I never need any explanation
From that woman in black
She’s a mystery
She’s everything a woman should be
Woman in black got a hold on me
For sample sound clips of the above, click here.
For a summary of the August 27 note below, see the quote from William Congreve on the cover of the September 2002 Vanity Fair magazine:
“There is in true beauty, as in courage,
somewhat which narrow souls
cannot dare to admire.”
