The song begins with how they were at the beginning reading palms by the window, growing out of his Gypsy boy phase. In fact, he's asking that they should "laugh and cry" about all of it, like two old friends would over childhood memories. The most beautiful thing in this song, to me, is the absence of bitterness, even if the relationship has ended. That’s just my interpretation but whatever it means it is a lovely song! I have absolutely no idea what the last 2 lines mean tho ‘…to wash my eyelids in the rain’ !! He blamed her for the way he felt and was ‘cold as a new razor blade’ to her so eventually she left. I think the relationship ended because he felt he was being tied down: 'you held on to me like i was a crucifix' and 'your fine spiderweb fastening my ankle to a stone' and he woke up one morning feeling alone and isolated. I think he felt she was smothering him and making him lose sight of his original goals and the path he was on to begin with. The second verse is saying how he loved this life but it wasn’t how he wanted to live and there were more important things for him to be doing rather than just being happy and loved up. The first verse is explaining how he thinks of himself as a ‘gypsy boy’ a free spirit who has no material home until the day when he submitted to her and let her take him home and look after him. To me this song is to an ex-girlfriend explaining why they broke up but he is saying that he still loves her and wants to be in touch again to 'laugh and cry' about the past because so much time has passed they should be able to now. I think the line about 'you've gone and changed your name again' means she has re-married. I see you've gone and changed your name againĪnd just when I climbed this whole mountainside I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web Your letters, they all say that you're beside me now Well, you know that I love to live with youĪnd then the angels forget to pray for us I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boyĪnd cry and cry and laugh about it all again Come over to the window, my little darling
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