The Gentleman is looking over his life -- his music and his romantic relationships ("perfumed limbs" and good-time girls"and "smelling of love," while "spin-offs with those who slept like corpses" is probably a reference to sexual one-night stands) and realizing he's not immortal. Yet another jewel from Mister B, this one beautiful and melodic in the manner of "Aladdin Sane" and "Loving the Alien" and "This is not America."
The Gentleman is looking over his life -- his music and his romantic relationships ("perfumed limbs" and good-time girls"and "smelling of love," while "spin-offs with those who slept like corpses" is probably a reference to sexual one-night stands) and realizing he's not immortal. Yet another jewel from Mister B, this one beautiful and melodic in the manner of "Aladdin Sane" and "Loving the Alien" and "This is not America."