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WEBMISTRESS speculates:
When I first heard the demo version of this song, I thought it was simply a fantasy scenario with a man asking a woman to dance. However, there's more to it. Stevie says in her audio commentary that this is "about being a famous woman in the rock'n'roll business - and the whole 'mountain women live in the canyon' - that's all really Laurel Canyon. It's best explained in one line where it says 'this is no ticket to dream land / a garden for flowers [sic] to grow in / as I run to the door of the long black car / Belle, will you dance with me?' What that means is as the limousine pulls up to pick me up to go on a long tour, any man that's in my life is standing in the doorway going "Bye... when are you coming back?" It could be a year - it's like this Fleetwood Mac tour [in 2014]. It could be a year; it could be a year and a half. That's where it all came from."
VIOLETBLUE speculates:
I always thought that "Belle Fleur" was a Bella Donna outtake, rather than TWH, as it's been reported, and it represented to me the first time she became aware that she had "made" it:
This is no ticket to dream land...
a garden for people to grow in
as I run to the door...
of the long black car...When she talks about "men and women living in the canyon" I think about that grand time in 70s - and I know in a sense she's quoting the Joni Mitchell song - but also talking about becoming a part of that group, the romance of it, of meeting new people and being desired.
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