Eminence Front Lyrics

Lyric discussion by OpinionHead 

Cover art for Eminence Front lyrics by Who, The

It's about people escaping their problems by perpetually partying. Dress up pretty on the outside to hide the beast on the inside.

You wouldn't happen to know what "the hair thins" means??

Cheers

Thinning hair? I'd like to believe it's an homage to Nick Carraway. Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby sees Nick turning 30. "Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade... Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."

And as Steve Allen once said, "of course I might be right."

Regardless, to me, the song seems a correction on the Woody Allen comment about God playing hide and seek in the universe: Man also does his share of hiding. "Who Are...