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Ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and I'd like to take some matches there and set it alight.
I can, cause I’ve seen those kind of places before.
Ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right.
I shan't, cause I’ve seen those kind of people before.
I won the war in the sitting room, I won the war but it cost me,
I won the war and I feel proud but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head
and I have to pull the blankets right up but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Well, you keep following the feel of the fire, it's not difficult to see
that you're young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go.
Let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and you should see the parties we've had before
give me the time, give me the time, give me your watchword, give me whatever you like.
I won the war in the sitting room, I won the war but it cost me,
I won the war and I feel proud, but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Ooh (supercilious smile), ooh (you're supercilious so).
Well you keep following the feel of fire, it's not difficult to see that you're
beautiful and young, and critical of nothing and you keep following the feel of fire.
It's not difficult to see that you're beautiful and young, but liberty and money, don't go.
I can, cause I’ve seen those kind of places before.
I shan't, cause I’ve seen those kind of people before.
I won the war and I feel proud but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head
and I have to pull the blankets right up but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
that you're young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go.
give me the time, give me the time, give me your watchword, give me whatever you like.
I won the war and I feel proud, but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
beautiful and young, and critical of nothing and you keep following the feel of fire.
It's not difficult to see that you're beautiful and young, but liberty and money, don't go.
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It seems that this song is about someone "young and selfish" who may be starting to realise how vain and intellectually competitive they are.
Maybe it's another character speaking to them in the chorus, someone more mature telling that person how vain, selfish and immature he or she is and how he/she keeps seeking the pleasure of showing off by trying to win arguments all the time.
And that young, immature, vain and selfish person has pangs of conscience and can't sleep well at night, because he/she "won the war in the sitting room, felt proud but it cost him/her", probably he/she feels guilty for humiliating someone else or telling lies in the intellectual discussions just to be able to win. It cost him/her integrity. He/she starts to realise her/his own vanity, selfishness and immaturity.
I love Harriet but I wonder, in case my interpretation is right, if she's talking about herself in her past academic life.
By the way, most songs on that album seem to describe someone's journey dealing with their own ambition, selfishness, existential crisis, intellectuality, etc.