The opening reversed vocals are symbolic of all things to titillate the masses as in themselves pornography. Back then actual pornography in England was much darker, dirtier, as is this song. Every action becomes a staged scene in a smuggled magazine in your mind. The sense of not just being watched, but watching something you shouldn't becomes omnipresent.
Therefore, I think this song is aboutparanoia and mental disintegration. Eventually you just want to kill yourself. Even death has something voyeuristic about it at this point. Drown yourself, slit your wrists, it's all pornography for the obsessed. Then the singer starts to attempt to be self aware, pulling their hair out with intent, trying to fight their growing sickness.
Also, the arrangement of the instruments in this song, especially the vicious freeform guitar, is brilliant
The opening reversed vocals are symbolic of all things to titillate the masses as in themselves pornography. Back then actual pornography in England was much darker, dirtier, as is this song. Every action becomes a staged scene in a smuggled magazine in your mind. The sense of not just being watched, but watching something you shouldn't becomes omnipresent.
Therefore, I think this song is aboutparanoia and mental disintegration. Eventually you just want to kill yourself. Even death has something voyeuristic about it at this point. Drown yourself, slit your wrists, it's all pornography for the obsessed. Then the singer starts to attempt to be self aware, pulling their hair out with intent, trying to fight their growing sickness.
Also, the arrangement of the instruments in this song, especially the vicious freeform guitar, is brilliant