In The Flat Field Lyrics

Lyric discussion by allisdee 

Cover art for In The Flat Field lyrics by Bauhaus

To me, the song represents looking for adventure beyond the mundane, looking for something "bigger"- a higher high, a more amourous encounter. In the first verse, he describes his sexual loneliness that is unfulfilling, so he gets tired of jacking off every night, but acknowledges this incessant obsession to satisfy this sex hunger. In the second verse, he states that he is bored with his sexual affairs and needs something more exciting, so he says that anybody can sleep with a tart (whore), but explains that he's been there already, and that he is the man more worthy to experience sexual bliss. The last verse indicates that since he is bored with the flat field (flat field indicative of no excitement and boredom with what he has had and wants more) he needs more than the whores he can get from Picadilly Circus and with that, he tends to escape from it by getting high (his cerebral fix) so he can escape into a new fantasy world of surreal bliss. This is a brilliant representation of the highest expectations one expects of themselves - Absolutely brilliant!