it's quite strange that so many of you can say it's 'obviously' not about REALLY being arrested, and that you're all looking for the cuffs to be a metaphor... who's to say it isn't a real arrest? seems to correlate well with the lyrics to '29', which is (according to Adams) very autobiographical...
'I got arrested down south for hitting a clerk
I spit in his face, the bastard knocked me out
He leered at my lady and then he touched her face
Thank God she had the money to bail me out'
it's quite strange that so many of you can say it's 'obviously' not about REALLY being arrested, and that you're all looking for the cuffs to be a metaphor... who's to say it isn't a real arrest? seems to correlate well with the lyrics to '29', which is (according to Adams) very autobiographical...
'I got arrested down south for hitting a clerk I spit in his face, the bastard knocked me out He leered at my lady and then he touched her face Thank God she had the money to bail me out'
seems to be the same incident.