This is a song that I have loved for as many years as I can remember.
It's all about the inability to deal with the realities of life as it stands, and trying to duck below the surface with chemicals to just simply deal with what is going on.
I also feel it's about accepting death - welcoming it almost as the purest route from the pain of being alive.
Of course, i could be wrong. But the fact remains that Mark Hollis is as close as we have got to a genius in the last 30 years in songwriting...
This is a song that I have loved for as many years as I can remember. It's all about the inability to deal with the realities of life as it stands, and trying to duck below the surface with chemicals to just simply deal with what is going on. I also feel it's about accepting death - welcoming it almost as the purest route from the pain of being alive. Of course, i could be wrong. But the fact remains that Mark Hollis is as close as we have got to a genius in the last 30 years in songwriting...