I just love this song - it's so beautiful as well as melancholy. At first I thought it was about sexual longing with the lyric:
"on a cold grey day, a cold grey man will do"
but I realise now it's much more than that. It's about a woman's emotional vulnerability to a man's sexual predatory nature. Likenen it to a recipe is clever and witty and some of the lines are very erotic like:
"Get me on the boil and reduce me to a simmering wreck with a slow kiss to the back of my neck"
Kirsty was a genius wordsmith - she is sadly missed!
I just love this song - it's so beautiful as well as melancholy. At first I thought it was about sexual longing with the lyric:
"on a cold grey day, a cold grey man will do"
but I realise now it's much more than that. It's about a woman's emotional vulnerability to a man's sexual predatory nature. Likenen it to a recipe is clever and witty and some of the lines are very erotic like:
"Get me on the boil and reduce me to a simmering wreck with a slow kiss to the back of my neck"
Kirsty was a genius wordsmith - she is sadly missed!