Not cryptic in the least (something that can always said about Wire and Colin Newman), and pretty self-explanatory. It's just a simple portrait of a situation, like a snippet out of a novel. What makes the song great is the atmospheric music though...it's like ambient punk.
This song, like many on the album Chairs Missing, basically has Wire stretching beyond punk's limitations and finding a new genre called post-punk in the process.
Not cryptic in the least (something that can always said about Wire and Colin Newman), and pretty self-explanatory. It's just a simple portrait of a situation, like a snippet out of a novel. What makes the song great is the atmospheric music though...it's like ambient punk.
This song, like many on the album Chairs Missing, basically has Wire stretching beyond punk's limitations and finding a new genre called post-punk in the process.