I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I made the Spike about nine o'clock on a Saturday
All eyes hit me as I walked into the bar
The spikey leather guys were foolin with the denim dudes
A couple cards played rough stuff, New York, Fire Island
I cased the joint, straining at the SEAMS
I moseyed up to the counter and the 'TENDER came a-grinnin'
I snapped the smile off his face and snarled "Give me a bourbon"
The mirror on the wall was collecting and reflecting
All the heavy bodies ducking, stealing eager for some action
The scene screwed me up, I saw some contact
Then there he was, saw me and knew that
I'd had too much, foolin' around
Statues alive, seconds are hours
Sex is like a hurricane it grabs and then it shatters
I was barely holding on to this fine body symphony
I guess I dream in pictures, not colors
The true free expression I demand is human rights - right?
I came the light, I am immortal
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
Nightmare, just a bunch of goddamn, rotten, steaming, raw
Deal
All eyes hit me as I walked into the bar
The spikey leather guys were foolin with the denim dudes
A couple cards played rough stuff, New York, Fire Island
I cased the joint, straining at the SEAMS
I moseyed up to the counter and the 'TENDER came a-grinnin'
I snapped the smile off his face and snarled "Give me a bourbon"
The mirror on the wall was collecting and reflecting
All the heavy bodies ducking, stealing eager for some action
The scene screwed me up, I saw some contact
Then there he was, saw me and knew that
I'd had too much, foolin' around
Statues alive, seconds are hours
Sex is like a hurricane it grabs and then it shatters
I was barely holding on to this fine body symphony
I guess I dream in pictures, not colors
The true free expression I demand is human rights - right?
I came the light, I am immortal
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
I'm going, no loss
Nightmare, just a bunch of goddamn, rotten, steaming, raw
Deal
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It's about gay bars. I feel gayer for even having read these lyrics.
If you feel even gayer, must mean you're gay to begin with.
Not a bad song, an odd one for Priest. It almost doesn't even sound like Judas Priest.
My friend...this is quintessential Priest. The entire album (I am dating myself) Sin After Sin, is Priest's best. Period. Priest's first 9 albums (including Unleashed In the East) are masterful. I do like Retribution and some songs (some) from the other albums. But, if you want Priest at it's very best, Sin After Sin is the ticket.
Pure Priest Attitude, this is an old one, but shows why Halford and crew were known as "Metal gods" Chain Noose is right Halford did say it has a Homosexual meaning; however, those are not my memories of Judas Priest. they always will be my favorite metal band!! -Kevin82abn
Rob Halford has stated in interviews that he's been gay his whole life.I always thought he turned gay after a relationship with woman went sour because of all the misogony in their early songs like Cheater and Victim Of Changes.I wouldn't expect him to admit that if it's true.These lyrics really are homo erotic though.What's so wild is that Rob was thrusting it right down our throats(bad choice of words,lol.) and none of us got it.Damn were we blind.I was only 13 when I first heard this song and had no idea what he was singing about.I thought Fire Island was a drink.I realized what it was about years later,but even that wasn't until he admitted he was gay.It doesn't matter to me,listen to the guitar work in this song.Sin After Sin is one of their best damn albums,and Judas Priest influenced three generations of metal bands so Rob can be gay all he wants,just keep the metal coming and make it heavy.
I would agree with you except for one small detail: Al Atkins, their original singer, wrote Victim of Changes, not Halford.
I've been a fan for a very long time and I can tell you for certain the conversation about the likelihood of Rob being gay is one been going on for at least 30 years. It wasn't a surprise to anyone who was more than a part-time fan that Rob came out. That whole idea that it was an utter shock to their fans, is dead wrong. We've always known.
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@tyranny_souls Yeah, Rob's orientation was rock and roll's worst kept secret.<br /> <br /> I dont care about people's sexual orientation as long as it consentual.
Priest's best album, to me...Sin After Sin. The first 9 are their greatest. You can take the rest (although I found Angel of Retribution to be pretty decent).
Some of these lyrics are probably wrong. I just saw Halford talking about this song in a very recent interview on Youtube where he mentioned the line being sung during the fast part as "love knoweth no laws". Makes a lot more sense than "I'm going no loss".
And, obviously, he explained that the song is indeed about visiting a gay bar on Fire Island. Something he hadn't even done at the time of writing this, so this song was him fantasising about the experience.