tracks on the feminine journey : shawn colvin music videos

The House burns, a fire set by Sunny when she came home to herself. The House, in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon mythos, referring to the spirit-house of the body. Lyric : “I will close my eyes and fly out of my mind”.

Also, the icon The Bride revitalizes herself (escaping the lifesized Cage, stripping from the restraining Bridal Gown). Score one for the Singing Bird (Shawn Colvin herself), who may or may not be the Sunny of the song-narrative, freeing herself via the fiery immolation.

Love the house open to the landscape imagery. The lyrical exorcism of ‘other’ from self. Love as possession?
Returning to a home open to the environment, open, yet, refusing to be possessed.
The lyrical and visual imagery of the music from this album A Few Small Repairs includes many images of return to self and exorcism. This makes sense given Shawn’s personal history of alcoholism and powerful creativity, and the ferocity of character necessary to manage all of those forces inside of onesself in order to continue making.