This song is definitely about suicide. I saw The English Beat live last night, and Dave Wakeling explained he wrote this song while living in Birmingham, sometimes thinking that suicide would be better than living in Birmingham. He wrote it after stumbling home from a pub one night.
This song is definitely about suicide. I saw The English Beat live last night, and Dave Wakeling explained he wrote this song while living in Birmingham, sometimes thinking that suicide would be better than living in Birmingham. He wrote it after stumbling home from a pub one night.