As regards "Subway is a porno", porn is like a fake type of intimacy. It takes sex, the most intimate you could ever be with someone, and makes it distant. The illusion of intimacy, like. For some people, by choice or whatever, porn is the closest thing to real intimacy. So its linked to being on a subway packed full of people and yet still feeling lonely as hell. You're surrounded by people but its only a fake type of intimacy, like porn. "Subway SHE is a porno" I think isn't calling the subway female but more saying a relationship in his life has no real intimacy. Being with someone and still feeling lonely. I read an interview with paul banks once who said he wrote it at a time when he was working maybe 80 hours a week, had no time for any real relationships and was very lonely.
As regards "Subway is a porno", porn is like a fake type of intimacy. It takes sex, the most intimate you could ever be with someone, and makes it distant. The illusion of intimacy, like. For some people, by choice or whatever, porn is the closest thing to real intimacy. So its linked to being on a subway packed full of people and yet still feeling lonely as hell. You're surrounded by people but its only a fake type of intimacy, like porn. "Subway SHE is a porno" I think isn't calling the subway female but more saying a relationship in his life has no real intimacy. Being with someone and still feeling lonely. I read an interview with paul banks once who said he wrote it at a time when he was working maybe 80 hours a week, had no time for any real relationships and was very lonely.