K.D. Lang had a big hit with "Constant Craving" -a fairly self-explainatory song about being really, really hot for somebody.
This, on the other hand, is an excellent cover of a Leonard Cohen song, to which Lang has changed the lyrics a bit. There is a great deal of millitary imagry in this version, what with the "Flag on the marble arch" and victory marches and shooting people. I See the narrator here as someone who is having a first serious relationship ("I used to live alone before I knew ya") and is perhaps made bitter by their past experiences ("But all I’ve ever learn from love / Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya") -be it actually shooting someone (which goes nicely with the millitary themes of the previous verse) or simply how to propperly bury the hatchet on a doomed relationship.
I guess we could say that the narrator is jaded -even perhaps "damaged goods", yet still happy to be with someone.
K.D. Lang had a big hit with "Constant Craving" -a fairly self-explainatory song about being really, really hot for somebody. This, on the other hand, is an excellent cover of a Leonard Cohen song, to which Lang has changed the lyrics a bit. There is a great deal of millitary imagry in this version, what with the "Flag on the marble arch" and victory marches and shooting people. I See the narrator here as someone who is having a first serious relationship ("I used to live alone before I knew ya") and is perhaps made bitter by their past experiences ("But all I’ve ever learn from love / Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya") -be it actually shooting someone (which goes nicely with the millitary themes of the previous verse) or simply how to propperly bury the hatchet on a doomed relationship.
I guess we could say that the narrator is jaded -even perhaps "damaged goods", yet still happy to be with someone.