Vashti Bunyan
A short, hymn-like meditation on children as old souls, built from three near-identical stanzas that shift only in pronoun and…
motherhood reincarnation or old-soul intuition time and memory
Neil Young
A middle-aged narrator recalls a woman he once admired for her restlessness and beauty, now settled into domestic life but still…
nostalgia freedom versus domesticity female mythology/idealization