There's an alternative lyric for the BBC Recording version:
"Feelings pushing through
I tried to suppress
Can’t turn to watch them crawl
Inside their walls of glass
Sweat breaking out
I fought to contain
Like those savage roots
Of this growing pain
I found myself
In the hothouse"
The theme is about Winning -Borland obviously feels that success and (in Hothouse) normal life is something mundane and irrelevant. He sees everyone leading a normal, sociable life as separate to him, seperated by the walls of glass of an imaginary greenhouse.
On the one hand he's torn between giving up his individuality to be cultivated into another mundane person or clinging on to his individuality alone.
If you haven't heard the BBC recording version do so, because it's a really, really fine take on the song.
There's an alternative lyric for the BBC Recording version: "Feelings pushing through I tried to suppress Can’t turn to watch them crawl Inside their walls of glass
Sweat breaking out I fought to contain Like those savage roots Of this growing pain
I found myself In the hothouse"
The theme is about Winning -Borland obviously feels that success and (in Hothouse) normal life is something mundane and irrelevant. He sees everyone leading a normal, sociable life as separate to him, seperated by the walls of glass of an imaginary greenhouse.
On the one hand he's torn between giving up his individuality to be cultivated into another mundane person or clinging on to his individuality alone.
If you haven't heard the BBC recording version do so, because it's a really, really fine take on the song.
That is quite the version. Love that this comment from 5 years ago. I think The Sound are going to have their day soon...
That is quite the version. Love that this comment from 5 years ago. I think The Sound are going to have their day soon...