I love the voice note at the end of Cherry. After the break up, the memory of the relationship is one of intimate domesticity: your lover on the phone while you are strumming a guitar. So often it's those quiet moments you miss most after a relationship has ended 1/

the ones that hurt the most when you realize your everyday life no longer includes that person, so the ordinary things hurt ("I'm in my bed, and you're not here" "the coffee's out at the Beachwood Cafe" "it's hard for me to go home and be so lonely.") 2/

She interrupts with a different version of domesticity, not as something to be missed, but something that can be oppressive. I've read brilliant interpretations of She re:gender and I think domestic routine as prison works nicely with them (one could write an essay!) 3/

The tension between public and private life, which appears in She, ties it to Lights Up: the idea of what people think they know of you, how well you know yourself, how well you are able to truly be yourself. Again, gender readings work along the private v. public life lens 4/

Sunflower Vol. 6 again has those little domestic memories, but this time they don't seem to be painful anymore ("kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor," "kids in the kitchen listening to dance hall," "mouth full of toothpaste" "got your face hung up high in the gallery") 5/

Canyon Moon has EVERYTHING: sweet, domestic reminiscences of the past relationship, tension of managing public v private life ("so hard to leave it, but that's what I always do") the potential for resolving the tension ("carry the feeling through Paris or through Rome") 6/

I love how CM hearkens back to She, but now the domestic routine of picking up/dropping the kids at school is no longer oppressive but a sweet interlude he is witness to in someone else's life. Then end lyrics I've read in different ways... 7/

"I'm going, oh I'm going home": within the context of the song, it works as a promise or expression of desire for that private life: he's away but in only "two weeks [he'll] be home." That's the most obvious and sensible reading, but isn't it fun that right after he sings... 8/

"oh I'm going home" the next thing he launches into his song for tour, TPWK, the one he dedicated to the energy he finds in the room with his fans? "maybe we can find a place to feel good". Either reading works in the scheme of the tension between the public and private life 9/

wanting two disparate things: a private, domestic quiet life, and a life touring the world ("I'll be gone too long from you") and in the public spotlight ("it's so bright sometimes.") This leads to my interpretation of Fine Line (the song) but this thread is TOO LONG already!