This song reminds me of the opening to Joy Division's CLOSER -- "Atrocity Exhibition" "this is the way, step inside..." -- Robert is inviting us into the madcap world that is THE TOP. While Joy Division's album is one darkly affected by Ian's imminent suicide -- complete desolation and deformation create the macabre circus we are being welcomed into, on THE TOP the circus is seen through the kalaidescope vision of an artist on drugs. At a dark moment, after having been drenched in pharmaceuticals for days, the artist is revealing his visions -- THE TOP has so many colours and is so brutally honest, it doens't sugar coat -- it is the vision of an artist at a moment in his life.
This song reminds me of the opening to Joy Division's CLOSER -- "Atrocity Exhibition" "this is the way, step inside..." -- Robert is inviting us into the madcap world that is THE TOP. While Joy Division's album is one darkly affected by Ian's imminent suicide -- complete desolation and deformation create the macabre circus we are being welcomed into, on THE TOP the circus is seen through the kalaidescope vision of an artist on drugs. At a dark moment, after having been drenched in pharmaceuticals for days, the artist is revealing his visions -- THE TOP has so many colours and is so brutally honest, it doens't sugar coat -- it is the vision of an artist at a moment in his life.