Barons of Suburbia

This is a very important song to me! We're all in a war of sorts, every day, to think that war is just something happening 'out there' is an illusion. I certainly know some carnivorous vegetarians - that's about moral ambiguity. And 'I will let your darkness invade me' - I do try to see things from other perspectives, even if those perspectives intimidate me at first. It is essential to let the darkness invade you, or you'll never really understand. That's the mistake made by so many fundamentalists who are obsessed with 'purity'. What is purity? To me it's the flipside of blank, numb, unfulfilled. 'You could maybe turn this white light into navy' - you could maybe turn the black and white into shades of grey. That's what this song is about, for me, seeing the complexity in decisions, in morality, instead of just having an idea of 'this is totally right and this is totally wrong.'

But I do agree it's about feminism. 'It was a slight miscalculation that our friends would be waiting on the other side of the bridge.' - we've fought so hard for it, and yet so many women, supposedly allies, are demonising feminism. Certain solutions which were once potions are now a poison, i.e. they are now the problems.

'You always liked your wafer sweet in the middle' - about communion, of course. This person wants the sweetness, they want pleasure and fulfillment, and it's not going to come from just eating this dry wafer in a dry ceremony. It has to come from within.