For some reason I connect the lyrics of this song with Richard Hell's childhood in Kentucky. It's ridiculous, I know, but Hell's dad died when he was kid, and I think he was pretty devastated by that. It also reminds me slightly of some of Arthur Rimbaud's poems, his descriptions of childhood alienation, the feelings of guilt and the knowledge of being different. If you can understand that feeling, than it's easy to imagine wanting the sky to swallow you up, to lose yourself in the void of space because you are 'not human.'
For some reason I connect the lyrics of this song with Richard Hell's childhood in Kentucky. It's ridiculous, I know, but Hell's dad died when he was kid, and I think he was pretty devastated by that. It also reminds me slightly of some of Arthur Rimbaud's poems, his descriptions of childhood alienation, the feelings of guilt and the knowledge of being different. If you can understand that feeling, than it's easy to imagine wanting the sky to swallow you up, to lose yourself in the void of space because you are 'not human.'