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Interpretations:West Virginia

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West Virginia's full of herself. --Scottus0 20:31, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

No specific meaning, I think, just a concept song about something recurring within itself. ASL

Matryoshka dolls? Maybe? ...

From a 1999 online chat with John Linnell:
MacBheathain> is west virginia about one of those sets of dolls that fit inside each other?
SPEAKER_John Linnell> Nope.
SPEAKER_John Linnell> It's partly inspired by Georgie Girl, "There's another Georgie deep inside."

More like trees. Any kind - it describes concentricity, rings, aging, and even references types of trees by name.

This song is about a messy apartment. Some guy lives in it, and the mess inside reflects on what he's like because the guy is really sloppy. So, in a way, he is living inside himself. -bigblargh

Or maybe a klein bottle?

Or a mother talking to a pregnant daughter?


"WVa, Why don't you come outside with me? There's something I'd like you to see"

Consider this daughter and come see what I can see, the bigger picture motherhood brings.


"Deep within ya There's another deep inside you and inside the other one there is another in the other"

Your girl child inside you already has inside her the eggs from which her daughters will grow


"Like I told you"

In the previous sentence


"You are concentric in your form When it's cold you Have got yourself to keep you warm"

You are the container of the future daughters, and they are part of you, and will comfort you.


"WVa - You'll contin-ya To be constantly a part of you, You'll never part and you will be The party who will be partial to you"

You can never really be parted from the daughters of your body and your love of them is part of the love they will return to you.

"Sugar Maple's winged seed, Propellers spinning from the tree, Rhododendron, evergreen"

The landscape of West Virginia is one of natural beauty and fecundity.

"Think it over, No need to answer right away, I'll be over There in the state across the way"

Just consider what I am telling you daughter, no pressure, and if you need me, I am nearby.


Okay, this is a really weird interpretation, I know, but it actually fits, except in the way it is sung, the vocal style. The vocal style is kind of sexual, like a love song, but if this were song by a female in a folk style alto, it could be a mother-daughter song. ~Christina Miller June 2005

Nah... It's about the state. West Virginia has Virginia inside it. I think it's just... a love song inviting the state to be all she can be, but she'll always (weeping) be part of the other state, because it's who she is in her innermost being. HA! That's Crazy! -- [PastaKeith]

When in doubt, just take it literally. It's a fun, creative song about West Virginia having smaller and smaller West Virginias inside of it, like those Russian dolls or the girl on the Land O' Lakes butter container holding a Land O' Lakes butter container with the picture of the girl on the Land O' Lakes butter container holding a... It's a cool concept, and so Linnell wrote a song about that, just like the song Pictures Of Pandas Painting.

The reference to the seed of the sugar maple (the winged seed of which is, in fact, like a spinning propeller) makes me think that the concentricity being talked about is the fact that the trees contain seeds, and the seeds contain trees. --Nehushtan 12:42, 12 Mar 2006 (CST)

I don't know much about US states, but didn't west virginia used to be part of virginia? Like West Virginia was litterally the west part of Virginia, and then it broke off and became it's own state. So there is still a west part of Virginia, but it's east of West Virginia. and then there's an east part of West Virginia, and a west part of West Virginia, and then there's the westmost part of western West Virginia... here's where the concentric part comes in. There's always a western part of a western part of a western part of West Virginia, etc., which was once simply a western part iself. So there is always another inside the other. --Ganna

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