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The song seems to be about more than one thing. My thoughts are that it is an ideal and reflects Marc Bolan’s main loves: cocaine (bang a gong), get it on (sex), his dream woman, and cars. If he were writing these lyrics in the studio, as history suggests, he likely put together a bunch of cool phrases, things he liked, and used some good sounding metaphors. It seems like he alternates describing a car, a woman, and cocaine, and mixes the images together to describe a dream girl, doing the dream drug, using his favorite things about cars. “You’re dirty sweet, and you’re my girl”, could be his sentiments for any of the three. Other parts seem specifically like him describing his dream woman and how her attributes are like an awesome car. “You’re built like a car, you’ve got a hubcap, diamond star, halo”, a cool hubcap turned horizontally, atop a woman’s head, like she’s an angel with the coolest halo. “You’re an untamed youth, that’s the truth with your cape full of eagles”, she seems to have the power of youth and flies like a bird of prey. “You’re windy and wild, you’ve got the blues in your shoes and your stockings”, She is fast, unruly, and so cool she is a heartbreaker, or inspires the blues wherever she goes, or she has soul. “You’re clad in black, don’t look back, and I love you”, like his dream car, she is dark, and has no regrets. The part where he says she has the teeth of the hydra upon her, seems like a metaphor for living dangerously, especially with doing drugs. She is slim and she’s weak feels like he is saying she is exactly that, skinny and unable to resist temptation, allowing to indulge fully with him and do drugs together. Much of that may seem like a stretch to others, but it seemed like the language of a rockstar to me. |
