I went to the beach yesterday, and realized this morning that ever since hearing "You and Me, Bess" (when the album came out), I've been perceiving the piles of kelp and seaweed on the shore as entrails from the gut of the sea. It's not simply that the sight of said sea debris calls up the lyric inside my brain, but that Joanna's description is so perfect that it seems to have become a part of my conceptual framework... does that make any sense?
Then there are so many other examples of where I've developed a strong association with a word or phrase in one of Joanna's songs, so that when I hear it in everyday life, it often brings the lyric into my head. Like if I hear either "meteroid" or "meteorite", I can't help thinking "a bone thrown from the void", or hearing joanna's voice singing "a meteorite's just what causes the light" or other bits of the meteor/meteorite/meteoroid rhyme. I'd bet that associative prompting is pretty common among Joanna fans... although perhaps not for the astrophysicists among us who deal in meteors daily. But more common words get me too, if I hear someone say the word "treason", I often think, "But there is no treason where there is only lawlessness." And then, of course, a couple of seconds later, I can't help it: "Law-less-ness!" Or I walk by some bare winter trees and think "the bones of the birches"...
What are associations with Joanna's lyrics that crop up for you in daily life... in conversation or in perception or...?