Tattooed Love Boys

She was abducted in her early twenties by a biker gang of tattooed love boys, and forced to perform sex acts upon them. I think this is an autobiographical song. Read the lyrics again.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223003/Why-did-Chrissie-Hynde-date-one-Hells-Angels-raped-her.html

I don't think "you got paint stick all over the scars and lumps and bumps" means the guy has AIDS. It refers to the woman who is in the position Chrissie used to be in, being abused...I think you can figure the rest out.

1. The song was written pre-AIDS so the reference to bandages has nothing to do with that.
2. I really don't think this song has anything to do with prostitution at all. I would say that "sixedheart" above is closest to the interpretation. Being used, finding personal and sexual power, and then seeing the tables turn.
3. My assumption was always that the "changing tires" had something to do with changing rubbers (she is from Ohio, after all), or condoms.
4. "Stop snivelling... plastic surgeon" I believe refers to stop crying or someone will thump you (i.e. rearrange your face). It's a fairly common expression in the UK.

If you ever get a chance to see her do this song live, it's insane. Chrissie Hynde is truly amazing.

According to chapter 14 of her autobiography entitled "Reckless", this song is about a time in her youth when she was sexually assaulted by a group of Hells Angels in Cleveland.

Hm. Not too difficult to get the message in this song, and Love it ain't. Using (oral) sex acts to achieve acceptance into a group/gang perhaps?

I wish these lyrics were spaced via tempo...oh well.

I think it's about any sort of sexual/teasing act rather than just oral. It basically about those girls that do 'certain' things just to get attention but dee down they are just insecure with themselves. So she was one of them, but now she see's someone else in that position.

It's a lot of rough sex imagery that pulls no punches, to me. "Changing tires" I found as interesting (I used to think it was "Chains and Tires? Upstairs, bro" meaning some real deviant strangeness, but I think I was off!) I think there's a story around it and a lot of the ideas that everyone's brought up are very good ones, but I don't think it gets nearly as specific as some of the ones I've read on here. "Stop sniveling - you're gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man" just sounds like dominatrix threats as does references to "scars and the lumps and the bumps", though "Paint stick" isn't clear. Great song/lyrics!

"Got paint stick" is the guys rod. Anyway, the song seems to be about Chrissie's rape experience. Chrissie implies in her book that she sort of induced the rape based on her behavior and clothing combined. She was with some wild dudes and got caught up in the roughness of it all. She was shown "what that hole was for".

The lyric is not "I went apewire." That makes no sense.
It's "I went afire."