Sex and Dying in High Society Lyrics
I think it's about the sex life of a rich girl. She's always been rich and she marries someone rich to keep her gold coated lifestyle. The line "you marry your daddy with a different name" means she married someone like her father. As for the part about the curling iron.. I think that's about the sexual frustration she feels from marrying someone just for the money.
Looks to me like a song about a woman who marries a rich man to stay with her rich lifestyle "married your daddy with a different last name". But she regrets it and becomes bored sexually "every time you look at him you could just fall asleep", then she finds more pleasure in pain "you say your pain is better than any kind of love". This last line also suggests the fact that the 'pain' is an instant gratification (in her case) while love is something that can be very confusing and hard to come by, since she has never experienced true love, she takes her pleasure in pain.
That's how I see it anyways.....
I have to say that I don't care for the way punker87 posted all of these X lyrics. No separation of lines, no punctuation, misspellings, no sense of where one verse ends and the other begins. I dunno, that style might be more "punk," but it's hard to read.
This song just says "the sexual and moral depravity of the L.A. and Hollywood rich" to me.
I think it makes perfect sense.
it's about somebody's twisted life
As debased as the Pixies, less sense than Frank Black howling at the Moon.
Not a bad song :D
Seriously people, how does this song NOT make sense? It makes perfect sense. Its about perpetuating the cycle of blue-blood upper crust bullshit. No love, just money. No partnership, just marrying for money. She "started out that way" because her mother was that way. She "married her daddy with a different name" she did what mommy did, found some rich bastard and became his trophy. "Every time you{she} look at him you could almost just fall asleep," because she has no feelings for him what-so-ever. "Your pain is better than any kind of love" very F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque...in a seedy LA punk kinda way.
Wow there. What a whacked-up song...the lyrics are rather explict, and don't seem to make much sense.
If it makes perfect sense to you, plaidcheerios, why don't you explain? After all, this is what this site is for.