In my opinion the first few lines to this song are suggestive of Suicide.
"It doesn't matter if we all die" is a general statement about
hopelessness in life.
"Ambition in the back of a black car" Black symbolizing death,
the car could be a hearse, and ambition is in the back of it because
of those suicidal feelings of never being able to amount to anything.
"In a high building there is so much to do" now emphasis is being put
on the size of the building, with depressing lyrics preceding this. Likely
he (Smith) is hinting at jumping to one's own death.
And the "Going home time, the story on the radio" would be suggestive
of how the News would broadcast the suicide incident, and how even though
the individual took his life, all he is to the rest of the world is just
another story to sell.
One Hundred Years definately sets the tone and theme of Pornography,
one of The Cure's Darkest and brooding albums that deals with the decay
of life, the fall into madness, and general hopelessness in living.
Well, that's how i see it anways.
@EasilyCured I guess it is much more simple: ambition in the back of a black car it is just a mention to diplomats, politicians, etc. in the back of usually black cars... Sometimes the easiest answer to the meaning is just what it says literally.
@EasilyCured I guess it is much more simple: ambition in the back of a black car it is just a mention to diplomats, politicians, etc. in the back of usually black cars... Sometimes the easiest answer to the meaning is just what it says literally.
In my opinion the first few lines to this song are suggestive of Suicide. "It doesn't matter if we all die" is a general statement about hopelessness in life. "Ambition in the back of a black car" Black symbolizing death, the car could be a hearse, and ambition is in the back of it because of those suicidal feelings of never being able to amount to anything. "In a high building there is so much to do" now emphasis is being put on the size of the building, with depressing lyrics preceding this. Likely he (Smith) is hinting at jumping to one's own death. And the "Going home time, the story on the radio" would be suggestive of how the News would broadcast the suicide incident, and how even though the individual took his life, all he is to the rest of the world is just another story to sell. One Hundred Years definately sets the tone and theme of Pornography, one of The Cure's Darkest and brooding albums that deals with the decay of life, the fall into madness, and general hopelessness in living. Well, that's how i see it anways.
@EasilyCured I guess it is much more simple: ambition in the back of a black car it is just a mention to diplomats, politicians, etc. in the back of usually black cars... Sometimes the easiest answer to the meaning is just what it says literally.
@EasilyCured I guess it is much more simple: ambition in the back of a black car it is just a mention to diplomats, politicians, etc. in the back of usually black cars... Sometimes the easiest answer to the meaning is just what it says literally.