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there's an army on the dance floor
it's a fashion with a gun my love
in a room without a door
a kiss is not enough in
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
they'd put us on a railroad
they'd dearly make us pay
for laughing in their faces
and making it our way
there's emptiness behind their eyes
there's dust in all their hearts
they just want to steal us all
and take us all apart
but not in
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
so swallow all your tears my love
and put on your new face
you can never win or lose
if you don't run the race
it's a fashion with a gun my love
in a room without a door
a kiss is not enough in
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
they'd put us on a railroad
they'd dearly make us pay
for laughing in their faces
and making it our way
there's emptiness behind their eyes
there's dust in all their hearts
they just want to steal us all
and take us all apart
but not in
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
love my way, it's a new road
i follow where my mind goes
so swallow all your tears my love
and put on your new face
you can never win or lose
if you don't run the race
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I think Butler said this is about a gay dance club. "A fashion with a gun, my love" is a crazy cool line in that context. "In a room without a door" could mean they don't have to close the door and hide within this place. All else seems to point to the club as being underground and hiding from the public eye. "love my way" makes sense in that context as well. I ain't gay, but you gotta love Butler! That man can write a lyric.
@KyleHaston I think this is about Andie ( Molly Ringwald) and it is about her in the movie, PIP.
@KyleHaston I think this is about Andie ( Molly Ringwald) and it is about her in the movie, PIP.
It really pains me to see so few comments on such a great song, yet a million on songs by bands like Hawthorne Heights, who haven't even close to the same artistic talent as these bands do.. Anyway, this is such a beautiful song, and what Miss Darkk says sounds pretty accurate. i think it's about a person who falls in love with someone different than he's used to, and thinks "well, it's a new road for me"... but that's just me.
I think this song is about him singing to a girl (or whoever) who has had a lot of bad relationships, she is pessimistic towards relationships/love because other people have used her. This guy is saying I'm not like them, I really love you and care for you, take a chance on me.
There was a video on youtube of the furs doing this live acoustic version of this and so many people were commenting how Richard's vocals sucked, how he was terrible, how he was off key. And I just thought you a-holes, listen to what he is singing, you are the ones he is singing about. The tight-assed little scaredy cats stuck in their one dimensional box. That is what this song is about and everyone here has touched on that in some way.
Somewhere up there in music heaven, god got it wrong and somehow the Psychedelic Furs and Simple Minds got switched and the wrong band went on to bigger and better things...damn you Kerr!!
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@Josega Or maybe the Psychedelic Furs just weren't interested in going on to "bigger and better things."
@Josega Or maybe the Psychedelic Furs just weren't interested in going on to "bigger and better things."
@Jorasar I was reading an interview with some 80s band or star - I am completely blanking on who it was - but somebody asked some question, and the answer from the band was “I am surprised the Psychedelic Furs weren’t a much bigger than they were”, it was absolutely a compliment, wish I could remember who that was.
@Jorasar I was reading an interview with some 80s band or star - I am completely blanking on who it was - but somebody asked some question, and the answer from the band was “I am surprised the Psychedelic Furs weren’t a much bigger than they were”, it was absolutely a compliment, wish I could remember who that was.
@Jorasar I was reading an interview with some 80s band or star - I am completely blanking on who it was - but somebody asked some question, and the answer from the band was “I am surprised the Psychedelic Furs weren’t a much bigger than they were”, it was absolutely a compliment, wish I could remember who that was.
@Jorasar I was reading an interview with some 80s band or star - I am completely blanking on who it was - but somebody asked some question, and the answer from the band was “I am surprised the Psychedelic Furs weren’t a much bigger than they were”, it was absolutely a compliment, wish I could remember who that was.
@Jorasar It was Paul Weller in the early '90s in an interview in Details magazine and Robert Smith expressed the same sentiment in the 90s, too. Bowie said he was a big fan of the Furs back in 1987 during The Glass Spider Tour. Around 1987, The Furs asked Bowie to produce their album and he turned them down because he claimed that he didn't want to ruin "their sound". Bob Dylan was an early Furs fan and wrote "Clean Cut Kid" for them but they turned it down because they claimed that they moved on from "those sentiments" expressed in the song....
@Jorasar It was Paul Weller in the early '90s in an interview in Details magazine and Robert Smith expressed the same sentiment in the 90s, too. Bowie said he was a big fan of the Furs back in 1987 during The Glass Spider Tour. Around 1987, The Furs asked Bowie to produce their album and he turned them down because he claimed that he didn't want to ruin "their sound". Bob Dylan was an early Furs fan and wrote "Clean Cut Kid" for them but they turned it down because they claimed that they moved on from "those sentiments" expressed in the song.
I was reunited with this song after watching 'The Wedding Singer' for the upteenth time and d/l it straight away. I adore it.
this is just plain cute, classic, peppy material by some really talented dudes. underappreciated 80's new wave is the bomb.
@maria If this is your idea of cute and peppy, I'm really curious what kind of song you'd consider dark and depressing.
@maria If this is your idea of cute and peppy, I'm really curious what kind of song you'd consider dark and depressing.
you kids are so cute!
Yes, the Furs are and WHERE the absolute BOMB when they were in the new wave spotlight in the early -mid 80's... No one before, or since could rasp a tune like Richard Butler.. it's just his voice - and that added some of the mystery to his songs, I think..
From an 80's kid, who lived part of his life 'underground' as we gay kids did in the early 80's, when being "out" wasn't as prevalent and easy as it might be today - this song struck a chord in us BIG time.. it was like a call to duty.. to "come out" .. to "Put on our new faces", so to speak.
I can't attest to the absolute meaning of this song, but trust that since Richard Butler is a gay brother, too - it's definately about the "new way" of love that was coming into the fore-front in the 80's and making headlines as the AIDS crisis started dominating the headlines ...
I always feel 22 when I hear this song again.. The Furs are by far my fave group of all time!
@Ritzytrailer So true! Couldn't have said it better myself!
@Ritzytrailer So true! Couldn't have said it better myself!
@Ritzytrailer well I wouldn't "trust" that Butler is a gay brother too since he's married to Annie for many years and has a daughter.
@Ritzytrailer well I wouldn't "trust" that Butler is a gay brother too since he's married to Annie for many years and has a daughter.
I came to see if anyone else had thought about the nazis when listening to this song. Although I thought about how the nazis also sent gays to the camps.
There's a (baddish) movie about it, it's called Bent with Clive Owen in it, I instantly thought about this song when I saw it.
I think this is one of the best songs ever written, love it.
The Furs have always been really hot when it comes to innuendo. I've always thought that nothing they do could or should be taken at face value. We have two references presented that ofer up the song as some sort of tryst between two lovers who never knew that they were destined to meet. Potentially to passers in the night who shared a part of their souls in a mere glimps. The song could also potentially be about the persecution of the Jews and Fascism. I'm not saying that I'm correct in this, but certainly there are parrellels that can be drawn. 1." Army on the dance floor"- the goose stepping and posturing and the many parades held by the 3rd Reich
==-- That's the most sensible interpretation I've read here. But do The Furs often sing about Naziism and bummers like that?
==-- That's the most sensible interpretation I've read here. But do The Furs often sing about Naziism and bummers like that?
If not, then I suspect it might just be a coincidence. Without heavy analysis like yours (as impressive as it is), the song sure sounds a lot like just a love song between two people who see everyone else around them as having become emotionally flat and uncaring after the life-charged teenage time. ....You know, the only time when we're really alive and not unfeeling zombies with dust in our hearts.
If not, then I suspect it might just be a coincidence. Without heavy analysis like yours (as impressive as it is), the song sure sounds a lot like just a love song between two people who see everyone else around them as having become emotionally flat and uncaring after the life-charged teenage time. ....You know, the only time when we're really alive and not unfeeling zombies with dust in our hearts.
"When you get old, your heart dies", and...
"When you get old, your heart dies", and life feels like a boring dead-end. I can testify personally that that's true. Except, for some reason unknown to me, I seem to be completely immune to that sad... sickness.
--faye kane ♀ autistic brain homeless astrophysicist
The "traditional" interpretation of this song is that he's using the Holocaust as a metaphor for intolerance—either homophobia, or anti-miscegenation racism.
The "traditional" interpretation of this song is that he's using the Holocaust as a metaphor for intolerance—either homophobia, or anti-miscegenation racism.
The Holocaust metaphors are pretty obvious (and yes, the Furs do often sing about "bummers like that"). The real question is the other half of the song.
The Holocaust metaphors are pretty obvious (and yes, the Furs do often sing about "bummers like that"). The real question is the other half of the song.
Many people take it as a triumphant "love conquers all" message. But that really doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the album, and even less so with the preceding albums. The whole first album is about the idea that love is just a stupid, useless...
Many people take it as a triumphant "love conquers all" message. But that really doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the album, and even less so with the preceding albums. The whole first album is about the idea that love is just a stupid, useless way for idiots to blind themselves to the pointless absurdity of life. If you look at the lyrics to other songs on this album, like "Forever Now", "Only You and I", or "Run and Run", does it really sound like he's changed his tune, or just found a mature way to make the same point? He seems to be saying that you might as well fall in love even though it's pointless, not because it will save you, but because, well, what else are you going to do?
@halcyon666 yea I certainly had the same interpretation of the persecution of the Jews, germany, and the world during ww2 by the the Third Reich. Most notably the SS branch of the Nazi party including the Gestapo. Almost everything you laid out I interpreted the same. Whether or not it's true I guess only Richard butler and the psychedelic furs can answer which isn't likely since they like to be mysterious about meanings. Which is just fine and it opens the door for everyone to have their own interpretation taken from the song. They were underrated and very talented....
@halcyon666 yea I certainly had the same interpretation of the persecution of the Jews, germany, and the world during ww2 by the the Third Reich. Most notably the SS branch of the Nazi party including the Gestapo. Almost everything you laid out I interpreted the same. Whether or not it's true I guess only Richard butler and the psychedelic furs can answer which isn't likely since they like to be mysterious about meanings. Which is just fine and it opens the door for everyone to have their own interpretation taken from the song. They were underrated and very talented. There's an Army on the dance floor it's fashion with a gun my love. Goose stepping posturing. The highly stylized fashions of their uniforms.. makes sense. It's could also have and entirely different meaning but as I've said thats the great thing about songs is that they are open to interpretation. I love new wave and the furs.