Interesting bit of trivia: The Upstairs Room is also the title of a Dutch Holocaust survivor's autobiography from I think the late '60s or early '70s (definitely well before this song came out, anyhow). During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the girl (who was I think preteen or so, maybe even a little younger, at the start of the story) and her family were hidden by a family of gentiles in a small room in the top floor of their house, hence the title. Because she was a young girl when she went into hiding, people (including critics) tend to compare the author and her chronicle of her experience to Anne Frank and hers. I haven't read The Upstairs Room, but my impression is that because it was written by a survivor, years after the Holocaust, so that she can't help but write from an historical perspective, while The Diary of a Young Girl was written in the midst of the terrifying historical events by a girl who did not know that she was destined to achieve worldwide fame for what was meant to be a personal journal and not a report to give others an idea of what it was like — nor that her fame would be posthumous (perhaps for the best, since it was after — it's really not possible to say that one or the other is "better:" they're just very different.
In any case...I don't know if the song has any relationship to this book or if it's just coincidence, but I thought it would be interesting to mention it, and who knows? Maybe somebody will find some possible relationship between the two Upstairs Rooms (song and book, that is).
(For the record: I have no clue what this song is about, except it seems to have something to do with a sexual relationship of some kind or other, but that may well be a metaphor,)
Interesting bit of trivia: The Upstairs Room is also the title of a Dutch Holocaust survivor's autobiography from I think the late '60s or early '70s (definitely well before this song came out, anyhow). During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the girl (who was I think preteen or so, maybe even a little younger, at the start of the story) and her family were hidden by a family of gentiles in a small room in the top floor of their house, hence the title. Because she was a young girl when she went into hiding, people (including critics) tend to compare the author and her chronicle of her experience to Anne Frank and hers. I haven't read The Upstairs Room, but my impression is that because it was written by a survivor, years after the Holocaust, so that she can't help but write from an historical perspective, while The Diary of a Young Girl was written in the midst of the terrifying historical events by a girl who did not know that she was destined to achieve worldwide fame for what was meant to be a personal journal and not a report to give others an idea of what it was like — nor that her fame would be posthumous (perhaps for the best, since it was after — it's really not possible to say that one or the other is "better:" they're just very different.
In any case...I don't know if the song has any relationship to this book or if it's just coincidence, but I thought it would be interesting to mention it, and who knows? Maybe somebody will find some possible relationship between the two Upstairs Rooms (song and book, that is).
(For the record: I have no clue what this song is about, except it seems to have something to do with a sexual relationship of some kind or other, but that may well be a metaphor,)