Floating eye is correct. The key is in the part were Mick sings of making it from Camden to 44th and 8th (streets,) and of course the standing at the gates of the west. I've always thought that when he says "But just like them we walk on/And we can't escape our fate" was trying to say that while few bands/artists ever 'crack' the U.S.A., what they have done is only temporary and will evntually come to pass, as all fashions do. But that is just my own and doubtable meaning I have pinned to that line. Feel free to correct me. This is a great song, but there are two things about it that bother me: a) After writing so many simplistic love songs, was it really Mick who penned these lyrics? They have a gret imagery to them; b) How can one person sound so much like Bob Dylan when he sings "He's telling the waitress he's great?" Maybe it' because they're both Jewish, I've noticed Lou Reed also has times where he sounds like Dylan, as does Paul Simon.
Actually, the whole song reminds me a lot of "Hurricane," another great song.
Floating eye is correct. The key is in the part were Mick sings of making it from Camden to 44th and 8th (streets,) and of course the standing at the gates of the west. I've always thought that when he says "But just like them we walk on/And we can't escape our fate" was trying to say that while few bands/artists ever 'crack' the U.S.A., what they have done is only temporary and will evntually come to pass, as all fashions do. But that is just my own and doubtable meaning I have pinned to that line. Feel free to correct me. This is a great song, but there are two things about it that bother me: a) After writing so many simplistic love songs, was it really Mick who penned these lyrics? They have a gret imagery to them; b) How can one person sound so much like Bob Dylan when he sings "He's telling the waitress he's great?" Maybe it' because they're both Jewish, I've noticed Lou Reed also has times where he sounds like Dylan, as does Paul Simon. Actually, the whole song reminds me a lot of "Hurricane," another great song.