| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Nothing to do with Whitechapel I'm afraid. Jubilee Street is in Brighton, where Nick lives. He actually thought Jubilee Street was a nearby Brighton street and wrote it about the wrong street he says. This comes from a recent interview with him. If you can be bothered you can google it. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm not getting the idea he murdered her. I am more inclined to believe he got her pregnant and then she had an abortion. OTOH maybe she had him banged to rights and named him as the father and he took the child and brought it up? There is a suggestion of him with a baby later in the song "pushing my little wheel of love" . Again maybe he made her abort the baby and the "foetus on a leash" reference might be suggestive of an abortion. Alternatively, could it be that he is now with a child he has subsequently fathered but remembering his past experience of impregnating this woman which ended badly and where he did not "practice what he preached" by having the pregnancy terminated? Nick is a man of religious convictions so an abortion would be difficult for him to countenance perhaps. Whatever, I don't see any reason to assume he murdered the prostitute. Anyway it's just my idea and it could all be nonsense. One of the great things about Nick's songs are their ambiguity |
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