The narrative of the song appears to revolve around the theme of things "not working out how it was planned". The main point of the song centering on a relationship that is at a predictable endpoint that the writer and and his lover had nonetheless vainly hoped to avoid in their youthful naivite.
The image of Soho is artully used to display the theme. Soho in it's heyday was a spot for a cultural revolution that nutured burgeoning artists and ironically transformed an empty industrial sector into an artist's enclave.
A side effect of artists moving into the area is the birth of cool.... and the enivitable movement of gentrification now seen in the older neighbourhoods of many worldclass cities. By creating something unique and "cool" and full of hope and ideas, the intial artists in Soho created a self-fulfilling prophesy in which human nature, especially in modern corporate America, cashes in on the unique, beautifu/cool/naive and ultimately destroys it. "things don't work out as they are planned, human nature always interferes."
The sons and daughters of the Soho riot are who is left after the unique idea had been destroyed...literally the next generation inherting a perverted and commercialized image of the revolution. Those listless souls who don't realize sipping a Starbucks while shopping at a Bloomingdales is the antithesis of the original idea.
To make a story short, the narrator's lover now listless and disillusioned is left to join the masses of refugees of an unfulfilled life.
The narrative of the song appears to revolve around the theme of things "not working out how it was planned". The main point of the song centering on a relationship that is at a predictable endpoint that the writer and and his lover had nonetheless vainly hoped to avoid in their youthful naivite.
The image of Soho is artully used to display the theme. Soho in it's heyday was a spot for a cultural revolution that nutured burgeoning artists and ironically transformed an empty industrial sector into an artist's enclave.
A side effect of artists moving into the area is the birth of cool.... and the enivitable movement of gentrification now seen in the older neighbourhoods of many worldclass cities. By creating something unique and "cool" and full of hope and ideas, the intial artists in Soho created a self-fulfilling prophesy in which human nature, especially in modern corporate America, cashes in on the unique, beautifu/cool/naive and ultimately destroys it. "things don't work out as they are planned, human nature always interferes."
The sons and daughters of the Soho riot are who is left after the unique idea had been destroyed...literally the next generation inherting a perverted and commercialized image of the revolution. Those listless souls who don't realize sipping a Starbucks while shopping at a Bloomingdales is the antithesis of the original idea.
To make a story short, the narrator's lover now listless and disillusioned is left to join the masses of refugees of an unfulfilled life.