This is a cynical song about love that is one of my favorite David Poe songs. The affair described here seems to involve a photographer becasue she's in a "dark room" and "shot her last roll." Or maybe that's just a double entendre. David Poe tends to drop in some references to The Bible, and the bit about the king with the prophets who doesn't want to understand his dreams seems like a reference to the story of Daniel in the Old Testament. Also David's a New Yorker so I'll bet the "hundred blocks" he mentions in the last verse has something to do from going uptown to doentown or vice versa. what an amazing song!
This is a cynical song about love that is one of my favorite David Poe songs. The affair described here seems to involve a photographer becasue she's in a "dark room" and "shot her last roll." Or maybe that's just a double entendre. David Poe tends to drop in some references to The Bible, and the bit about the king with the prophets who doesn't want to understand his dreams seems like a reference to the story of Daniel in the Old Testament. Also David's a New Yorker so I'll bet the "hundred blocks" he mentions in the last verse has something to do from going uptown to doentown or vice versa. what an amazing song!