| Squeeze – Take Me, I'm Yours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Perhaps it's about finding drugs... ;) | |
| Squeeze – Take Me, I'm Yours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Heroin...? Surely not... Over the years I've come to realise how many great "love songs" have been written in ode to the songwriter's love affair with Heroin - Perfect Day (Lou Reed), There She Goes (The La's), Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones), Golden Brown (The Stranglers) and Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) to name but a few. Listen to the lyrics and you can't help but know that these songwriters were writing about a genuine, almost romantic relationship with this substance... Glenn Tilbrook's own journey through the world of Heroin use is a matter of public record. Having never been there myself the rest is purely speculative interpretation on my part... Remember this IS just an interpretation - I wouldn't want any silly buggers getting all offended by it... So let's look at the lyrics... I've come across the desert - To greet you with a smile (Metaphor for craving and finally gaining a hit...) My camel looks so tired - It's hardly worth my while (Feeling washed out and lifeless beforehand) To tell you of my travels - Across the golden East (Refers to the Golden Triangle - a region in Northern Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, infamous for opium production) I see your preparations Invite me first to feast... Take me, I'm yours - Because dreams are made of this, (Drug speaks to user/user speaks to drug...) Forever there'll be a heaven in your kiss... (Speaks of the romance in this particular "love affair"...) Amusing belly dancers - Distract me from my wine (The distraction of being high...) Across Tibetan mountains - Are memories of mine (Feelings of great distance/dislocation from the world; troubles and memories seem a world away) I've stood some ghostly moments With natives in the hills Recorded here on paper My chills and thrills and spills... (Self-referential - writing song lyrics about this drug experience...) It's really been some welcome - You never seem to change (Euphoric feelings of welcome comfort - feeling good again...) A grape to tempt your leisure (The classical thematic link between grapes and temptation/temptation of drugs...) Romantic gestures strange (Speaks of awareness of the strange nature of having such romantic thoughts/feelings...) My Eagle flies tomorrow (I'll get high again tomorrow...) It's a game I treasure dear (Speaks again of enjoyment of all these experiences...) To seek the helpless creature (Refers to the sense of helplessness experienced whilst under the influence...) My love, at last I'm here (Back in the lovers' embrace...) |
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