Cornerstone lyrics2/21/2023 ![]() I think the most importent thing is that everyone draws thier own meanings from the song - or any song for that matter. Well thats my analysis of the song anyway. She is so down and lonely that she needs him just as much as he needs her and they ultimatly fall in love. While he is not in a stable state of mind he goes over to the sister and asks her outright. ![]() ![]() His mind starts to go wild and at this point he may very well have already fallen in love with the sister. So to wrap up the final verse, the guy sees the sister, sees that shes having a hard time following the lost of her sibling. "She was close, you couldn't get much closer", obviously, because genetically she is the sister of the girl. We know the guy has been looking for the girl in everyone else and the sister is "on her own" and in a dead-end job ("on the phone to the middle-man"). Both thier lives aren't going very well at the time. So the girl is dead, the songwriter and the girls sister meet. This would also explain the remainder of my analysis for the final verse. Also the girls ghost is mentioned early in the song. I don't see how his obsession could have reached its current point unless she was dead. Now before I continue I must say that I believe the girl he is looking for in everyone else hes passed away. He may even be dreaming while his mind is getting ahead of him before he has even talked to the girl. So basically, in the line "I saw your sister in the cornerstone", the songwriter as saying that as soon as he sees the sister he gets the assumption that he's found his answer. # S: (n) basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained) "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" (Retrieved from Princeton University WordNet Search, /perl/…). Nothing to do with corners or prostitutes! But that is not the meaning of the word "cornerstone" in these lyrics. Why is it that people instantly think "prostitue" when the word "corner" is mentioned?Ī cornerstone is generaly the plaque in a building that states when the building was built and who officialy opened it etc. General CommentFirst thing: The girl in the final verse is not a prostitute. ![]() She said, "I'm really not supposed to, but yes I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along When I asked her if I could call her your name ![]()
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