really really great song. I read an interview with Davey where he said he wrote it when he used to work in one of the big parks in London and always used to have to chuck out teenage girls who were pissed and bumming around.
It does really capture the modern phenomenon of 'the waster' - lines like "you kick like a mule short of an oscar", and when he says "get in the space ship and stop bleeding" and "why won't you ever go all the way?" he's wondering what the could achieve if they put their minds to it.
Not necessarily in a self-righteous way, but more like how many people are there in this country who like living in "a white russian galaxy" "light years away from reality" because they are turned that way through disillusionment with society? and what could they all do if they put their minds to it? they could raise hell! (hell being heavenly as Davey says)
really really great song. I read an interview with Davey where he said he wrote it when he used to work in one of the big parks in London and always used to have to chuck out teenage girls who were pissed and bumming around. It does really capture the modern phenomenon of 'the waster' - lines like "you kick like a mule short of an oscar", and when he says "get in the space ship and stop bleeding" and "why won't you ever go all the way?" he's wondering what the could achieve if they put their minds to it. Not necessarily in a self-righteous way, but more like how many people are there in this country who like living in "a white russian galaxy" "light years away from reality" because they are turned that way through disillusionment with society? and what could they all do if they put their minds to it? they could raise hell! (hell being heavenly as Davey says)