Is she dying on the inside, by becoming more and more unloving and interested in greed (remember the avarice from the first song?!?! a ha, is that the connection? ((Avarice- love of money,greed))? or is she dying physically, from the heroin or something else? we never know. but the last lines are the most disturbing of the album. or maybe wants the richer man to pay for her drug habit.? who can say.
Maybe shes been revealed to be shallow and only interested in money and was lying the whole time. Not only that she has left Van for a richer man( who also happens to own the stereotypical love-gone-bad mobile, the Cadillac). It seems that she has in fact a drug addiction( i believe heroin specifically because of the white horse, metaphor, and the fact that ireland had a very bad heroin problem). People take from it whatever their disposition to take from it is." (Van Morrison, to Randy Lewis). The songs are works of fiction that will inherently have a different meaning for different people. "The songs are poetic stories, so the meaning is the same as always–timeless and unchanging. Approach it a bit the way you would a dream - things are not what they seem, but they are exactly what they feel (to each person individually). Feel the words, feel the music, and derive your meaning from that. I think a better approach to understanding the works is to ditch the narrative, like you would when reading a non-linear books (Ulysses for example).
Fact is though, youre never going to achieve a satisfactory result because Morrison wrote some of these peices as a 'stream of consiousness' not 'even thinking about what he wrote' (Ritchie Yorke, Van Morrison Biographer) whilst others were 'composites.of conversations.movies, newspapers, books' and are 'totally fictional' (Van Morrison, NPR Interview). You can spend alot of time trying to tie specific meanings to the songs on Astral Weeks, pinning places and metaphors together, trying to create a narrative storyline and ahcieve a definite understanding.
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