What McDonald does is expose a woman you hadn’t known existed, but who when you think about it later was always there. In the song’s stormy preface, Rose speaks of “what I been holding down inside of me.” That turns out to be something more than the wounded, outsize ego of someone who believes she should have been a contender. The resentment and jealousy that Rose feels toward Gypsy and her younger, runaway daughter, the beloved and cosseted June (Jordan Tyson), are transformed into a more far-reaching fear of abandonment.