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if i said
i'd lost my way
would you sympathise
could you sympathise
i'm jumbled up
may'be i'm losing my touch
but you know
i didn't have it anyway
won't you come on down to my
won't you come on down to my
rescue
things are wrong
things are going wrong
can you tell that in a song
don't know what i want anymore
first i want a kiss
and then i want it all
won't you come on down to my
won't you come on down to my
rescue
rescue, rescue, rescue
things are wrong
things are going wrong
can you tell that in a song
losing sense of those harder things
is this the blues i'm singing
is this the blues i'm singing
is this the blues i'm singing
is this the blues i'm singing
rescue
is this the blues i'm singing
i'd lost my way
would you sympathise
could you sympathise
i'm jumbled up
may'be i'm losing my touch
but you know
i didn't have it anyway
won't you come on down to my
rescue
things are going wrong
can you tell that in a song
don't know what i want anymore
first i want a kiss
and then i want it all
won't you come on down to my
rescue
things are going wrong
can you tell that in a song
losing sense of those harder things
is this the blues i'm singing
is this the blues i'm singing
is this the blues i'm singing
rescue
is this the blues i'm singing
Song Info
Submitted by
typo On Jan 07, 2002
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To me, it's coming from someone who wants an intimate relationship, and they are looking to a particular person to help them or "rescue" them from their celibate life thus far. It also seems that as they are pleading for help, they are slowly being rejected. A great song!
How can there only be one comment?! This is arguably one of the Bunnymen's best. This a great song off of a great album.
It's interesting to read the comments but you need to read the lyrics again... Knowing Mac for who he is, if you read between the lines you'll understand he's asking loved ones, friends, us as fans and anyone with humanity in them to "come on down to my rescue". He's at the depths of despair as an addict or slipping slowly into becoming an addict and the 'down' he's referring to is get down to his level of pain and anguish and understand he needs real help. A couple of clues to the meaning include the lead guitar introduction to the song mimicing an S.O.S. signal. As a reformed addict I can see the words for what they are... such as the line "First I wanna kiss and then I want it all". He's referring to the initial taste of the drug being so sweet and embracing, as an addict he can't stop there at just one hit, he's got to have more... Mac's a deep and interestingly gifted writer who hasn't had the deserving recognition that popular artists have today. the likes of Mr. Barlow or Miss Winehouse et al have had. I'm a Liverpool lad and E
@Willywonty Except he wrote this when he was about 19 or 20. We all know about Ian's indulgences over the years but he wrote the song at a time when they were just starting out. I have no doubt he was drinking and dabbling in drugs but we're not talking about Ian in he late 80's to present, who is basically an alcoholic and coke-head. He said that this was about feeling lost and that it was a sad time in his life. He wrote it in his mom's house and said the song takes him back...
@Willywonty Except he wrote this when he was about 19 or 20. We all know about Ian's indulgences over the years but he wrote the song at a time when they were just starting out. I have no doubt he was drinking and dabbling in drugs but we're not talking about Ian in he late 80's to present, who is basically an alcoholic and coke-head. He said that this was about feeling lost and that it was a sad time in his life. He wrote it in his mom's house and said the song takes him back to his childhood bedroom. My understanding is that drugs didn't really grip them until Heaven Up Here and Porcupine.