I like this song, and I'm gonna try and hazard a guess at it's meaning...
"Spearmint Rhino" is a famous British stripclub chain.
I presume Gran being robbed of her life honey is her dying, or else her husband dying (read on).
The de Havilland Hornet is a WWII fighter plane. Driverless i.e. the driver has died.
"Last Post" is a song, played on the trumpet (or rather bugle), to commemorate war heroes, particularly of world wars.
His "blind crippled crumpet", I'm a bit unsure of. Crumpet either means a type of snack or a pretty woman - so I will opt for it meaning pretty woman. So his blind crippled wife (?) doesn't like living without her husband who died in the war.
"The engine won't start without him". She won't do anything without her husband, compares the woman to her husband's fighter plane.
The narrator get's well dressed in "mod" style, from mod clothing he buys at Sherry's of London. (Paul Weller is a famous mod). He sheds a tear, and toasts to the war hero (his grandfather.)
The war hero left his family wealthy (well-dressed at least "done to the nines with satin for lining".)
The war hero's wife is now dying (the narrator's grandmother). Her metaphorical "engine" is running low. The narrator can't fix it.
Well that's what I managed to figure out, could be wrong. :)
I like this song, and I'm gonna try and hazard a guess at it's meaning...
"Spearmint Rhino" is a famous British stripclub chain.
I presume Gran being robbed of her life honey is her dying, or else her husband dying (read on).
The de Havilland Hornet is a WWII fighter plane. Driverless i.e. the driver has died.
"Last Post" is a song, played on the trumpet (or rather bugle), to commemorate war heroes, particularly of world wars.
His "blind crippled crumpet", I'm a bit unsure of. Crumpet either means a type of snack or a pretty woman - so I will opt for it meaning pretty woman. So his blind crippled wife (?) doesn't like living without her husband who died in the war.
"The engine won't start without him". She won't do anything without her husband, compares the woman to her husband's fighter plane.
The narrator get's well dressed in "mod" style, from mod clothing he buys at Sherry's of London. (Paul Weller is a famous mod). He sheds a tear, and toasts to the war hero (his grandfather.)
The war hero left his family wealthy (well-dressed at least "done to the nines with satin for lining".)
The war hero's wife is now dying (the narrator's grandmother). Her metaphorical "engine" is running low. The narrator can't fix it.
Well that's what I managed to figure out, could be wrong. :)