She was a silver girl
Lost in a high tech world
She was a golden girl
Immersed in a hard core world
She would have preferred
The last generation
But that's alright
She is on her way

She had the Midas touch
She was Lady Luck
She's got a million bucks
And she looks like it
She's had a few hard times
Sometimes it blows her mind
Those papers she never signed
Sometimes she remembers

Sometimes she was just an actress
But you'll never really know
A shadow moves across her face
You cannot see her soul
Unless she lets you
See her soul

She was a girlie girl
Caught in a man's world
And as her world turns
She feels oh, so alone

Still she's a danger girl
Insane far beyond her years
On some things she's very clear
She's a wild adventurer

Sometimes she was just an actress
But you'll never really know
A shadow moves across her face
You cannot see her soul

Sometimes she was just an actress
But you'll never really know
A shadow moves across her face
You cannot see her soul
You cannot see her soul
You cannot see her soul
You cannot see her soul
Unless she lets you
See her soul
See her soul
She lets you see her soul

Sometimes she was just an actress
But you'll never really know
A shadow moves across her face
You cannot see her soul
You cannot see her soul

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WEBMISTRESS speculates:

While Stevie says this is about Sheryl Crow, I think Stevie is at least partially describing herself here. The line about having a "Midas Touch" reminds me of After the Glitter Fades, where she says, "What I seem to touch these days has turned to gold." Also, she's called herself old-fashioned before, and often gets inspired by old-timey stars like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Of course, rock music can be considered a man's world, and certainly there's a lot of high-tech and hard-core aspects to that!

We all know about Stevie's hard times but also how she's prided herself on her femininity (as early as the Rumours tourbook she is described in those terms). She's still living the same way now - her lifestyle, while wild, has kept her young in a way because she loves what she does so much.

The idea of Stevie as an actress is also not a new one; the director of Gypsy actually said she would make a great one. Additionally, there is the idea of "putting on a good show" no matter how you are really feeling or what you are really experiencing, as in Rock a Little (Go Ahead Lily). Constantly suppressing one's real emotions can be damaging, however, so occasionally a shadow "moves across her face" as she looks back on her life. She also expresses loneliness (as her world's turning...yeah, yeah). It's interesting, though, that she seems to take pride in the fact that her unhappiness is unfathomable to most unless she "lets them in on the secret," so to speak. This echoes Gold and Braid and Stevie's love of being mysterious and enigmatic.

I suppose the overall idea here is a woman who has entered a man's world, taken control and become a great success with few regrets. She takes pride in herself and is never going to stop, whether it's Stevie or Sheryl!

 

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