I think that the secret to understanding the imagery in this song is the first line: "Oh its carnival night." I'm thinking that it is some sort of celebration that a guy is attending.
"Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in
Underneath my skin,
Oh you were always my original sin
And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin
This dangerous game
Oh you were always my original sin "
Now the guy in this song is talking about a person who he has wanted for a long, long time (Original Sin). Now no matter what, this girl always gets back into his thoughts somehow. However for some reason he can't get her. Perhaps the best clue is that something is wrong with them being together (all the stuff about sinful pleasure.) Or maybe he's just shy, only Bernie Taupin knows.
"Up in the balcony
All the Romeo's are bleeding for your hand
Blowing theater kisses
Reciting lines they don't understand"
Thats one of my favorite verses in all of rock and roll. To me that verse means that there are a lot of guys who want this girl and are trying hard to get her. They are being all romantic and saying things that they really don't comprehend (poetry maybe). Or in a very general sense, a bunch of assholes are trying to pick her up with their best lines.
@Good OL MC I had a freind dedicate this song to me a week or so ago she goes this is your song.I dint knwo if she was taking the piss out of me at first but she and others seen my pain and after for years i met this guy in northern ireland and it killed me it seemed he was so right then he left he knew when we looked on the internet at first that how hard it woudl be to immigrate there and he did say your never gonna get here.we get in fights...
@Good OL MC I had a freind dedicate this song to me a week or so ago she goes this is your song.I dint knwo if she was taking the piss out of me at first but she and others seen my pain and after for years i met this guy in northern ireland and it killed me it seemed he was so right then he left he knew when we looked on the internet at first that how hard it woudl be to immigrate there and he did say your never gonna get here.we get in fights on this chat program on and off we been freinds and few months ago he said your soo far away.And hes said we have to be friends we just friends but yet once he said if we got together he woudl be hard on me like i woudl drive him a little edgy im guessing.HE has said we proabably woudl be married but we always hurt each otehr back and forth sure i had few crushes on the net on teh same program but no one compares to my friendship with him our closeness we had and us meeting together.He cant understand that.HEs told me in the past how pretty much he is just friends with some etc like trying ot prove to me but yet we just friends and gets angry and says he will do me a favoer and blocked me.He said juet the past week we coudl be great friends all in fornt of a room of chatters i apologized and i siad we both hurt each other and go back adn forth.I wish god had a miracle for if it was love he nver shows on and off a few people well one thinks he loves me hes pretty good friends with him.BUt no one can compare i hate it he gets me soo angry but i always fall into im sorry and kills me all over again.we look too opposite to be together and stuff but i feel i fell in love with a friend first it wastn his looks it was him.I know ies been four years and I do try.I want to finda guy just like that that can show me his heart and not hide it though.bear his sould to me there just isnt any real ones out there.so when they recite their poems lits liek all the flirty guys saying stuff to me but no one can compare to what i cant get out of my heart soo many times i tried .He mad a promise we woudl never lose our friendship he broke it.
I think that the secret to understanding the imagery in this song is the first line: "Oh its carnival night." I'm thinking that it is some sort of celebration that a guy is attending.
"Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in Underneath my skin, Oh you were always my original sin And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin This dangerous game Oh you were always my original sin "
Now the guy in this song is talking about a person who he has wanted for a long, long time (Original Sin). Now no matter what, this girl always gets back into his thoughts somehow. However for some reason he can't get her. Perhaps the best clue is that something is wrong with them being together (all the stuff about sinful pleasure.) Or maybe he's just shy, only Bernie Taupin knows.
"Up in the balcony All the Romeo's are bleeding for your hand Blowing theater kisses Reciting lines they don't understand"
Thats one of my favorite verses in all of rock and roll. To me that verse means that there are a lot of guys who want this girl and are trying hard to get her. They are being all romantic and saying things that they really don't comprehend (poetry maybe). Or in a very general sense, a bunch of assholes are trying to pick her up with their best lines.
@Good OL MC I had a freind dedicate this song to me a week or so ago she goes this is your song.I dint knwo if she was taking the piss out of me at first but she and others seen my pain and after for years i met this guy in northern ireland and it killed me it seemed he was so right then he left he knew when we looked on the internet at first that how hard it woudl be to immigrate there and he did say your never gonna get here.we get in fights...
@Good OL MC I had a freind dedicate this song to me a week or so ago she goes this is your song.I dint knwo if she was taking the piss out of me at first but she and others seen my pain and after for years i met this guy in northern ireland and it killed me it seemed he was so right then he left he knew when we looked on the internet at first that how hard it woudl be to immigrate there and he did say your never gonna get here.we get in fights on this chat program on and off we been freinds and few months ago he said your soo far away.And hes said we have to be friends we just friends but yet once he said if we got together he woudl be hard on me like i woudl drive him a little edgy im guessing.HE has said we proabably woudl be married but we always hurt each otehr back and forth sure i had few crushes on the net on teh same program but no one compares to my friendship with him our closeness we had and us meeting together.He cant understand that.HEs told me in the past how pretty much he is just friends with some etc like trying ot prove to me but yet we just friends and gets angry and says he will do me a favoer and blocked me.He said juet the past week we coudl be great friends all in fornt of a room of chatters i apologized and i siad we both hurt each other and go back adn forth.I wish god had a miracle for if it was love he nver shows on and off a few people well one thinks he loves me hes pretty good friends with him.BUt no one can compare i hate it he gets me soo angry but i always fall into im sorry and kills me all over again.we look too opposite to be together and stuff but i feel i fell in love with a friend first it wastn his looks it was him.I know ies been four years and I do try.I want to finda guy just like that that can show me his heart and not hide it though.bear his sould to me there just isnt any real ones out there.so when they recite their poems lits liek all the flirty guys saying stuff to me but no one can compare to what i cant get out of my heart soo many times i tried .He mad a promise we woudl never lose our friendship he broke it.