I think it's about heroin use myself... something that unfortunately snagged Kilbey for quite a bit there. Look at the lyrics through that lens (as in "Heroin, it's my life and it's my wife")... "Hotel Womb"... temporarily returning to the womb in a heroin trip.
"'I was deliriously in love with opium and heroin. I was using them every day … drugs were becoming very important to me. People can only visit that space for a short time with narcotics. Quickly the honeymoon is over. But in that brief period I found a muse. I found a mojo. I found a state that I wanted to imitate with music and I wanted to let people in on this state. I thought it was something worth trying to replicate.'' - Steve Kilbey
"'I was deliriously in love with opium and heroin. I was using them every day … drugs were becoming very important to me. People can only visit that space for a short time with narcotics. Quickly the honeymoon is over. But in that brief period I found a muse. I found a mojo. I found a state that I wanted to imitate with music and I wanted to let people in on this state. I thought it was something worth trying to replicate.'' - Steve Kilbey
That quote is about the "Priest = Aura" record a few years later, but I think it speaks to parts of "Starfish" and "Gold Afternoon Fix (kind of beat us over the head with that one, didn't he?)." Psychedelic music is all about altered states of perception, and it came into being as a way to recreate the moods and experiences of drug trips. But there's definitely a difference in the "pot, pills and acid" sound of the early Church records up to "Heyday" and then the opioid-tinged period of "Starfish" onward for a few.
not cannibalism...
the other comment is a nice interpretation.
I think it's about heroin use myself... something that unfortunately snagged Kilbey for quite a bit there. Look at the lyrics through that lens (as in "Heroin, it's my life and it's my wife")... "Hotel Womb"... temporarily returning to the womb in a heroin trip.
"'I was deliriously in love with opium and heroin. I was using them every day … drugs were becoming very important to me. People can only visit that space for a short time with narcotics. Quickly the honeymoon is over. But in that brief period I found a muse. I found a mojo. I found a state that I wanted to imitate with music and I wanted to let people in on this state. I thought it was something worth trying to replicate.'' - Steve Kilbey
"'I was deliriously in love with opium and heroin. I was using them every day … drugs were becoming very important to me. People can only visit that space for a short time with narcotics. Quickly the honeymoon is over. But in that brief period I found a muse. I found a mojo. I found a state that I wanted to imitate with music and I wanted to let people in on this state. I thought it was something worth trying to replicate.'' - Steve Kilbey
That quote is about the "Priest = Aura" record a few years later, but I think it speaks to parts of "Starfish" and "Gold Afternoon Fix (kind of beat us over the head with that one, didn't he?)." Psychedelic music is all about altered states of perception, and it came into being as a way to recreate the moods and experiences of drug trips. But there's definitely a difference in the "pot, pills and acid" sound of the early Church records up to "Heyday" and then the opioid-tinged period of "Starfish" onward for a few.