"I don’t know where that came from.
I think that was just a college drug haze, because it doesn’t make much sense.
It’s this really weird thing about a vampire; a dead woman.
I used to ask the audience what they thought this song was about and nobody knew.
(Laughs) Wysteria is dead, it’s a ghost. And this guy’s still hung up on this ghost.
Listen to it in that context (laughs). It’s a weird song.
I think I remember lying in a hallway of some dumpy house I lived in in college and this thing came out.
And I didn’t even know what the name “Wysteria” meant.
I was at a head shop and I saw a candle or some incense called Wysteria, and I thought it was a great word (laughs)."
This song is on Dan Fogelberg's 1972 album "Home Free" - I have this CD Wysteria, did you
change your face again Wysteria, did you lose
another man Wysteria, did he take
you to the fair Wysteria, did he teach
you how to dance Was he just like all
the rest when he got to the sad part Wysteria, are your lips
still lily white ~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~
Those of us who loved you when can't even find you
Did you make him understand that he can't touch you
Were the folks that you met there the same that we met
Did he bring you paper fans to hide your secret
Did he stay a bit too long to save his heart
Do they still bloom just at night and die at sunrise