I hate pretentious interpretations that don’t allow any flexibility in musical poetry, but I am looking forward to hearing someone’s opinion on this, close minded or no.
My take on this (and I am probably off target)
I get the imagery that the speaker lacks the courage to tell the listener that he loves her and keeps referring to distractions that don’t really exist to keep from putting his feelings out there. Comparing ordinary places to a night club and the chaos that goes in one allows form him to not speak, even though the speaker halfway has the courage to at least begin to say it “Baby, check this out I’ve got something to say”
Other than that I like the song as a whole. Very “Pet Shop Boys” feel to it.
I hate pretentious interpretations that don’t allow any flexibility in musical poetry, but I am looking forward to hearing someone’s opinion on this, close minded or no.
My take on this (and I am probably off target)
I get the imagery that the speaker lacks the courage to tell the listener that he loves her and keeps referring to distractions that don’t really exist to keep from putting his feelings out there. Comparing ordinary places to a night club and the chaos that goes in one allows form him to not speak, even though the speaker halfway has the courage to at least begin to say it “Baby, check this out I’ve got something to say”
Other than that I like the song as a whole. Very “Pet Shop Boys” feel to it.