Starlight
- Mine / Starlight (Eras Tour, Singapore)
“Ooh, ooh, he's talking crazy, ooh, ooh, dancing with me”
“The whole place was dressed to the nines and we were dancing, dancing like we're made of starlight”
“He was trying to skip rocks on the ocean”
“The night we snuck into a yacht club party pretending to be a duchess and a prince”
“You'll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way”
the marvelous diction and the mid-century society woman
“Oh my, what a marvelous tune”
“She had a marvelous time ruining everything” — the last great american dynasty
Community readers observe that "marvelous" — the word at the heart of "I had a marvelous time ruining everything" — recurs in only one other song in the catalogue, Starlight, itself a portrait of a mid-century New England society woman. The shared diction quietly links two women watched and judged from the outside.