My take is that the narrator is talking to a young woman he is seducing. Hanging on a curtain definitely makes me think of a kitten. He's describing her in terms that are similar to how you might talk about a cute pet kitten. I can picture her hand gripping a curtain and pulling on it as they make out. She likes to hear him talk, maybe hearing him talk about what he's doing to her.
Unfortunately I have no clue what to make of the the blue toes. Maybe she's got frostbite, or he has a clown shoe fetish. It could just be a great sounding phrase. That's the terrific thing about Sandman's lyrics, they evoke images and moods without going into explicit detail.
The notion of pedophilia in this song seems pretty far-fetched to me. MAYBE a bit of a Lolita element at worst.
It's sad that Mark is no longer with us to explain...
My take is that the narrator is talking to a young woman he is seducing. Hanging on a curtain definitely makes me think of a kitten. He's describing her in terms that are similar to how you might talk about a cute pet kitten. I can picture her hand gripping a curtain and pulling on it as they make out. She likes to hear him talk, maybe hearing him talk about what he's doing to her.
Unfortunately I have no clue what to make of the the blue toes. Maybe she's got frostbite, or he has a clown shoe fetish. It could just be a great sounding phrase. That's the terrific thing about Sandman's lyrics, they evoke images and moods without going into explicit detail.
The notion of pedophilia in this song seems pretty far-fetched to me. MAYBE a bit of a Lolita element at worst.
It's sad that Mark is no longer with us to explain...