I believe this song is about a woman wanting a hesitant man who is bittered from love. It has a lot of nazi imagery in it, and is about control and possessiveness. The man is a singer, and the woman is the daughter of an overbearing father. The male lover is selfish in bed, so she's force to please herself. Her fantasies about him are shattered, and the imagery of the boat from the earlier verses have caught on fire, as their relationship takes a downward spiral of doom. He doesn't care. He lays in bed and smokes, he's famous for his stupid power hungry selfishness. And for this reason, they'll never ever reach the moon, the moon here is an analogy for sexual fulfillment, something they never will be able to obtain. Her because of her codependency, and him because of his arrogance. After all that, neither one of them learned anything about themselves together or independently. And in the end none of this is any surprise to the narrator, who moves on with his buddies to "sing another song..." which is destined to sound quite similar.
I believe this song is about a woman wanting a hesitant man who is bittered from love. It has a lot of nazi imagery in it, and is about control and possessiveness. The man is a singer, and the woman is the daughter of an overbearing father. The male lover is selfish in bed, so she's force to please herself. Her fantasies about him are shattered, and the imagery of the boat from the earlier verses have caught on fire, as their relationship takes a downward spiral of doom. He doesn't care. He lays in bed and smokes, he's famous for his stupid power hungry selfishness. And for this reason, they'll never ever reach the moon, the moon here is an analogy for sexual fulfillment, something they never will be able to obtain. Her because of her codependency, and him because of his arrogance. After all that, neither one of them learned anything about themselves together or independently. And in the end none of this is any surprise to the narrator, who moves on with his buddies to "sing another song..." which is destined to sound quite similar.
Thanks for your excellent analysis. But I only see two Nazi references: first the dagger and then lying in a heap. Do you see others?
Thanks for your excellent analysis. But I only see two Nazi references: first the dagger and then lying in a heap. Do you see others?