Sweet Painted Lady Lyrics

Lyric discussion by harmonee 

Cover art for Sweet Painted Lady lyrics by Elton John

For the life of me!WHY? anyone as good looking,(and I am NOT gay!)ultra-cool and rich to boot,as BT should wind up as a misogynist,and pay tribute to prostitutes i really don,t know!.Well! it,s probably because he isn,t.No,what i think that he might be trying to do is express that:-What a shitter life can be for some people and just what they unfortunately, have to do to get through ( not their promiscuity!). But like Token-Brit mentions there is no small amount of ironic pathos in the song : that, it is told from the viewpoint of the emptiness of the sailors that seek this kind of ...(love!),that come and go!.Yet the biggest irony of all to me is ;if, one was to roll their eyes over the lyrics!! is the recurring line of bernie,s which expressly mentions that-"THERE,S A PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR A WOMAN LIKE YOU!!!.