Hanging On A Curtain

to me this song is just about two lovers.

nothing about dodgy paedos... "!" or rape.

i have no idea what hanging on a curtain means, sounds cool though. :)

Hardly any feeling of suicide. It is honestly very sexual. And she was very obliging, she told him like "Please don't stop talking" and then "More, more, more". Definitely about hooking up with someone.

seek some help, fool

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...

it sounds like entering a room, where someone has just attempted to commit suicide....

hanging on a curtain...

and the blue toes... sounds like they are in the beginning stages of death..

let me put my hand inside your clothes..... let me try and save you? or at least hug you in sorrow... as the person may have already died

I've listened to this song a thousand times trying to figure it out. And it definitely does not seen to be about rape. I think it's about two lovers. A girl wanting the man to talk to her and not stop. To tell her stories and just talk. But the man wants to get to far. "Let me put my hand inside your shirt".

LLUWD2005 - I think you read more than was there, the whole album's dead sexy and Morphine were not that sort of band - it's about getting down to it, IYKWIM

As for the blue toes, nail varnish anyone?

Great song

Very big fan of Morphine here. After many years, i came to the conclusion that this lyric it's about the murder of a young girl and subsequent necrophilia. Yeah it's dark. But that's morphine and it doesn't give a damn about any "moral superficiality" (in the song that comes right after this one in the album it says "right or wrong, to me is the same thing...", just as an example, there are references to this sort of mentality in various tracks). Look: "Hangin' on a curtain" someone which commited suicide or, in this case, was murdered by hanging. "Swingin' like a clock" Like old pendulum clocks, the dead body swings after the agony of dying and keeps swinging until it returns to inertia upon the consequent relaxation of death. "Big hand on the seven, the little hand on top" it refers to the time, little hand was at 12h and big hand at 35min. Probably a bit past midnight (12:35am), the "darkest hour" in folklore and literature. "You said you like to hear me talk, you told me not to stop" Here is the mind of a psychopath in action, creating a twisted history between him and the victim, and that ends up cascading to reality, in the case, end up doing what he does in the song. "Little red feet with big blue toes" here he talks about the feet of a kid, still colored by blood, but already with blue toes, which are extremities of the body and get colder faster. "Let me put my hands inside your clothes" here the deturpated fantasy continues, the man in the music can finally do what he wants with the body, now dead. "Cute buttons like pointy little teeth" here its a reference to the pointy and round nipples of young girls which already entered adolescence, he has taken the cloths off. "Oh, don't bite please" here is a sarcasm of the psychopath in question, since the kid is dead and can't fight back. Maybe, the girl was reluctant in the first place and he had to kill her. Before the track finishes you can hear at the background the voice of an adolescent girl, this reinforces my theory about this song and the possibility that the murder was not what the man wanted to begin with, because the voice is clearly very sweet and intimate, so much probably he was close family with the victim, which did not "collaborated" with his perverted delusions. The vocal by Mark in this song has a tone that reminds someone who unfortunately lost someone he loves, and it's a bit sad, but also a bit satisfied...

Well After Many Months Of Visiting This Site, Checking Back To See If Any One Would Dare Post A Comment About This Song I See That No One Has As Of Yet. I Am Hoping That After I Post My Thoughts That Maybe Someone Else Would Tell Me What They Think...If You Have Never Hurd This Song, You Gotta Download It, Even Tho It's Weird, It's Worth Listening To It Atleast Once... Ok Well I Think The Song Is Clear It's About An Older Man 35-50 Raping A Young Girl 4-8 ... He Starts Off By Saying Big Hand On The Seven Little Hand On Top That Makes The Time 12:20 Am Or Pm??? I'm Going To Say Am And I Will Explane That Later, Anyways Later On In The Song He Sings Little Red Feet With Big Blue Toes Let Me Put My Hand Inside Your Clothes, My Guess Would Be That Little Red Feet With Big Blue Toes Are Feeted Pajamas Like A Little Child 4-7 Maybe Even Younger Would Wear, Then He Sings Cute Buttons Like Pointy Little Teeth Whoa Please Don't Bite Please Would Mean Don't Try And Fight It, He Sings In The Begining Hanging On A Curtain Swining Like A Clock That Leads Me To Believe That He Is Sneaking In Through Her Window To Do What He Does, Now This Is Where It Gets A Little Hazy At The End Of The Song He Sings You Said You Like To Hear Me Talk You Beg Me Not To Stop, That Makes Me Believe That He Is A Friend Of The Girls (I'm Assuming That It's A Girl) Family Maybe Just A Friend Of Her Dads, He May Tell Her Jokes Or Tell Her Storys To Earn Her Trust.... Tell Me What You Think....