• in my canon, i originally composed this song for murray, our of my own Song. it was an unhinged romantic feelings-dump, though i wasn’t sure if he picked up on that feeling.
  • he and all of the minstrels made up their own parts on the fly, because they could hear what they were supposed to do and did it. this is one of the most crucial tests a possible minstrel can take - it shows their ability to know a song and what they're supposed to do, almost intrinsically.
• i was in my 200s when i wrote let me be your song, and it wasn’t really “written” - just memorized.
• if properly written, the title would be “let me be your Song,” not “let me be your song.” yes, there’s a difference.
• i littered the lyrics with double entendres on purpose.
• most of the notes below will be written from a very distant outsider’s standpoint; i wrote it for a website that doesn’t know if murray or myself very well. bear with me.

music grows in the rose / rock and rain and the blowing snowstorm / everything seems to sing / everywhere i go

• these statements show that anything can represent love, and that despite hardships, these correlations and this love cannot be ruined.
• “everything seems to sing” ties into the representation; when you’re lovesick, everything reminds you of your partner, no matter how small or how irrelevant

i say, one, two, play me do / let me sound as sweet as you / play me wide, play me long / let me be your Song!

• these lyrics have two meanings.
  • since it is a love song, its intent is to be humble, and to lift who it’s being played for up. the singer wants to be as wonderful as the listener, and may achieve this by being close to them - sort of like rubbing off on them.
  • however, this also shows a double entendre, mainly with the concept of being “played.” the characters who sing this part play a pipe and a guitar respectively, and both require impressive work with the fingers. “let me sound as sweet as you” could imply the concept of noises a person may make during sex, or the concept of sweet talking.
• “let me be your Song” means “let me be your soulmate.” all fraggles have Songs, and they are an intrinsic, unchanging part of them, as music is to fraggle society.

lay me down on the ground / song comes singing from the midnight places / raise me high in the sky / song comes drifting through

• this also has two meanings, depending on what is heard in the first lyric:
  • “lay me down/raise me high” can be a concept of earth and heaven, or being risen up to the latter because of the concept of “pure love.” since “music” or “a song” indicates love in this instance, this can also mean to tell everyone about the love that the two of them share, and to be proud of it; a song is made to be sung, after all.
  • “play me down on the ground/song comes singin’ from the midnight places” can be implied as a sexual lyric because of, again, the concept of “playing” a person, like the body of a pipe or the neck of a guitar. sex is also a closed, quiet activity, implicating the inclusions of being laid down and the specific midnight time.

i say, one, two, play me do / let me sound as sweet as you / play me wide, play me long / let me be your Song!

• see the chorus

play me high, play me low / play me where the wild wind’s blowing / play me wide, play me long / play me for your song

• this, again, implicates not only the concept of shouting your love everywhere, but “playing” someone.
• in my canon, this lyric also had a sexual meaning; the singing cave was a very private place, known for the sounds it emits and how carefully it can cover up other sounds. it is notoriously very windy to unexperienced listeners, such as myself at the time.

i say, one, two, play me do / let me sound as sweet as you / play me wide, play me long / let me be your Song!

• see the chorus