Desert Kisses

Everytime I listen to this, I can always imagine Siouxsie stuck in this desert island. She's trying to survive there and also attempting to get out of that place. It kind of seems she goes a little insane too. I'm not very good at identifying the song's meanings, am I?

i fucking LOVE this song i imagine her in like turkey or a middle eastern place like that like and everyone hates her and she wants to get away but they get her and then :(

Seems like an apocalyptic vision in this song-- the narrator the only one alive for miles, or more. Expansive remoteness and despair here.

sand, sand, sand. later:Venus Sands

This and Lunar Camel are an example of Siouxsie and Severen writing individual songs about the exact same topic, in this case, The High Priestess of the Tarot, or at least using the symbolism thereof. From the Book of Thoth (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/libro_thoth04.htm#II._THE_HIGH_PRIESTESS_):

This card is referred to the letter Gimel, which means a Camel. (The symbolism of the Camel is explained later.)

The card refers to the Moon. The Moon (being the general feminine symbol, the symbol of the second order corresponding to the Sun as the Yoni does to the Lingam) is universal, and goes from the highest to the lowest. It is a symbol which will recur frequently in these hieroglyphs. But in the earlier Trumps the concern is with Nature above the Abyss; the High Priestess is the first card which connects the Supernal Triad with the Hexad; and her path, as shown in the diagram, makes a direct connection between the Father in his highest aspect, and the Son in his most perfect manifestation. This path is in exact balance in the middle pillar. There is here, therefore, the purest and most exalted conception of the Moon. (At the other end of the scale is Atu xviii, q.v.)

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The following chapter of the Book of Lies (falsely so-called), may assist the student to understand this doctrine by dint of meditation:

    DUST DEVILS
    In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.
    It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
    All life is choked.
    This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Universe.
    The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
    Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd in a world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go.
    And as they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower.
    See! Five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V.V.V.
    (For the classical description of the Abyss, the student should consult Liber 418, The Vision and the Voice, especially the Tenth Aethyr The Equinox, Vol. I, No.5, Supplement.)

SIOUXSIE: "It’s Banshee-ballad. Not wet. It’s a romantic, lonely song. Casablanca. . ." Source: Zigzag 05/80.

Possibly also based on Dreams, which acted as the inspriation for a lot of Banshee lyrics.