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Electricityby Joni Mitchell The Minus is loveless He talks to the land And the leaves fall And the pond over-ices She don't know the system Plus She don't understand She's got all the wrong fuses and splices She's not going to fix it up Too easy The masking tape tangles It's sticky and black And the copper Proud headed Queen Lizzie * Conducts little charges That don't get charged back Well the technical manual's busy She's not going to fix it up too easy And she holds out her flashlight And she shines it on me She wants me to tell her What the trouble might be Well I'm learning It's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century They're not going to fix it up Too easy We once loved together And we floodlit that time Input output electricity But the lines overloaded And the sparks started flying And the loose wires Were lashing out at me She's not going to fix that up Too easy But she holds out her candle And she shines it in And she begs him to show her How to fix it again While the song that he sang her To soothe her to sleep Runs all through her circuits Like a heartbeat She's not going to fix it up Too easy © Joni Mitchell |
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In the song, I think, she is referring to the penny coin replacement in a fuse box as described below. I'll let you figure out a deeper meaning, but for me it might be that she is referring to the protagonist (the women in this case) "who has hot wired herself despite having blown a fuse - the protection and thus defeating the fuse box - self control" , but don't quote me.
If your home was built around 1950 or before, you probably have fuses. If it was built after that time, you probably have circuit breakers. Although they look different, they serve the same function - to protect the wire (from overheating and causing a fire). Fuses are glass with a lead band that is visible through the glass base and screw into a fuse socket. Fuses and circuit breakers have nothing to do with electricity. Their only purpose is to protect the wire they are attached to by keeping it from overheating. Oversized fuses or circuit breakers do not enhance the electric circuitry or the equipment they serve. The use of a too large fuse, the installation of a metal disk such as a coin in the fuse box, or the use of tape to keep a circuit open defeats the purpose of the fuse box or circuit breaker and comprises its integrity, increasing the possibility of an electrical fire.
Guitar Transcriptions of Electricity | ||||
