I'm grasping at straws here, just like with every other Destroyer song, but, I would assume that this song from the upcoming LP Trouble In Dreams is speaking of marital infidelity. Basically his wife is the "Blue Flower" and the woman he had the affair with is the Blue Flame", i.e. short term. Perhaps following that theme we could assume that the recurring line "a woman by another name is not a woman" is a statement to his wife that the affair meant nothing, that she is the only woman who means anything to him. Or maybe the first verse is leading up to the actual sex and the second; starting with the lines; "a gray ashen sadness rises like the sun, oh well, It was time I decided to try this hotel, her world.." the gray ashen sadness could be the guilt that he's feeling, but rationalizes this with the fatalist view of "oh well, it was gonna happen anyway". And finally, still following this idea, we could also assume that the speaker finally settles on staying with his wife, and ending the "Blue Flame" But then again, its pretty much impossible to figure out what Dan means..
I'm grasping at straws here, just like with every other Destroyer song, but, I would assume that this song from the upcoming LP Trouble In Dreams is speaking of marital infidelity. Basically his wife is the "Blue Flower" and the woman he had the affair with is the Blue Flame", i.e. short term. Perhaps following that theme we could assume that the recurring line "a woman by another name is not a woman" is a statement to his wife that the affair meant nothing, that she is the only woman who means anything to him. Or maybe the first verse is leading up to the actual sex and the second; starting with the lines; "a gray ashen sadness rises like the sun, oh well, It was time I decided to try this hotel, her world.." the gray ashen sadness could be the guilt that he's feeling, but rationalizes this with the fatalist view of "oh well, it was gonna happen anyway". And finally, still following this idea, we could also assume that the speaker finally settles on staying with his wife, and ending the "Blue Flame" But then again, its pretty much impossible to figure out what Dan means..