That lyric really takes on an ugly sheen now, dunnit?But ignoring John and Mackenzie Phillips' family affair, I've long wanted to repurpose "I Saw Her Again Last Night" to be about a closeted guy with a beard-girlfriend. And watching Mad Men a few weeks ago, when Sal daintily and diligently performed the entire "Bye Bye Birdie" choreograph for his silently horrified wife, I thought to myself: "To string her along's just not right ..."
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"Don't know why I'm livin' a lie"
Your "closeted guy" interpretation is spot-on. In addition, this song has always seemed very early-Lennon-McCartney-ish to me, both lyrically and melodically (think "I Should've Known Better" and imagine the Beatles doing it with a hamonica interlude).
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