India

One of my fave songs, always gives me tingles. The meaning... no surprise no one else has suggestions, its all fucked up, sounds like reminiscences from a drugged night out.

Richard Butler wrote these lyrics when he was a teenager, years before he and his brother co-founded the Furs. His own explanation is, "It's very personal, but I don't know what it means", so I don't know how much hope the rest of us have for figuring it out.

But if you look at the lyrics, half of the songs on the first album (Fall, Pulse, Flowers, We Love You, and Soap Commercial) seem like they're expanding on ideas he first wrote in this song. Dancing, spinning under the ceiling, useless lives, stupid love, the stupid sea, flowers, carpets… Maybe this song is just all the visions and ideas spinning around young Richard Butler's head that drove him to become a lyricist.

I think the meanings he attached to all these images in later songs (flowers and carpets being about opiates, love being a trap created to trap you in middle class society, etc.) may be unrelated to the original meanings in this song.

But whoever the Caroline is in this song, I'm guessing she laughs when it's raining all day.

I always thought this song was about Heroin.