No comments on this song yet? Well, this song was my favorite the year it was released, when I was 15, so perhaps I should be the first to comment.
Somewhere upstairs I have a copy of this on 33 RPM disk but without a working turntable I hadn't listened to it in many years. Inspired by my son listening to the "Nights with Alice Cooper" radio show, I recently bought "Love It To Death" on CD. Now I've listened to it, oh, 3000 times in a row.
What does the song mean? It's a mocking description of someone caught up in the pursuit of wealth, but that person is also becoming aware that not all is OK -- that his pursuit is a dream that's not making him happy. He's waking up but trying to convince himself to continue dreaming: "I tell that to myself and I agree".
By the way, elixir808 recorded the second line as "to get away from that success smell". That's what I thought it was, too, until finding "to get a whiff of that success smell" on a lyrics website. "Whiff" is cleverer and more in tune with the song's meaning.
No comments on this song yet? Well, this song was my favorite the year it was released, when I was 15, so perhaps I should be the first to comment.
Somewhere upstairs I have a copy of this on 33 RPM disk but without a working turntable I hadn't listened to it in many years. Inspired by my son listening to the "Nights with Alice Cooper" radio show, I recently bought "Love It To Death" on CD. Now I've listened to it, oh, 3000 times in a row.
What does the song mean? It's a mocking description of someone caught up in the pursuit of wealth, but that person is also becoming aware that not all is OK -- that his pursuit is a dream that's not making him happy. He's waking up but trying to convince himself to continue dreaming: "I tell that to myself and I agree".
By the way, elixir808 recorded the second line as "to get away from that success smell". That's what I thought it was, too, until finding "to get a whiff of that success smell" on a lyrics website. "Whiff" is cleverer and more in tune with the song's meaning.