Yeah props to edu for getting this one right. If you all read "On the Road" and recognize Kerouac's "spontaneous prose" as he coined it, youll find that Belew is actually writing these lyrics how Kerouac would write in "On the Road". As for the homoerotic references, I doubt that Belew is referencing the band cause those guys are all married. Most of the Beats were gay, by the way. Kerouac fooled around with a dude but freaked out and never felt right about it again. Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and the rest of the beats used to have boy toys. Neil Cassady, too.
@omfgitsdtc You're on the right track here I think. Nothing really homoerotic about it though. IMO, absent lovers is a reference to life ''on the road,'' where you are separated from your lover. It's well known that Neal Cassady was the inspiration for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty. There are other references to being on the road; homesickness, new soap, fresh blue bad, being out at insane hours (4am). Neal was known to drive a beat up old Studebaker, but it was a station wagon, not a Starlight coupe, poetic license?
@omfgitsdtc You're on the right track here I think. Nothing really homoerotic about it though. IMO, absent lovers is a reference to life ''on the road,'' where you are separated from your lover. It's well known that Neal Cassady was the inspiration for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty. There are other references to being on the road; homesickness, new soap, fresh blue bad, being out at insane hours (4am). Neal was known to drive a beat up old Studebaker, but it was a station wagon, not a Starlight coupe, poetic license?
@omfgitsdtc Yes, this is the answer. "Absent lovers" likely just means the "singer" is feeling lonely, just as the Beats were all quite lonely and independent.
@omfgitsdtc Yes, this is the answer. "Absent lovers" likely just means the "singer" is feeling lonely, just as the Beats were all quite lonely and independent.
Yeah props to edu for getting this one right. If you all read "On the Road" and recognize Kerouac's "spontaneous prose" as he coined it, youll find that Belew is actually writing these lyrics how Kerouac would write in "On the Road". As for the homoerotic references, I doubt that Belew is referencing the band cause those guys are all married. Most of the Beats were gay, by the way. Kerouac fooled around with a dude but freaked out and never felt right about it again. Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and the rest of the beats used to have boy toys. Neil Cassady, too.
@omfgitsdtc You're on the right track here I think. Nothing really homoerotic about it though. IMO, absent lovers is a reference to life ''on the road,'' where you are separated from your lover. It's well known that Neal Cassady was the inspiration for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty. There are other references to being on the road; homesickness, new soap, fresh blue bad, being out at insane hours (4am). Neal was known to drive a beat up old Studebaker, but it was a station wagon, not a Starlight coupe, poetic license?
@omfgitsdtc You're on the right track here I think. Nothing really homoerotic about it though. IMO, absent lovers is a reference to life ''on the road,'' where you are separated from your lover. It's well known that Neal Cassady was the inspiration for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty. There are other references to being on the road; homesickness, new soap, fresh blue bad, being out at insane hours (4am). Neal was known to drive a beat up old Studebaker, but it was a station wagon, not a Starlight coupe, poetic license?
@omfgitsdtc Yes, this is the answer. "Absent lovers" likely just means the "singer" is feeling lonely, just as the Beats were all quite lonely and independent.
@omfgitsdtc Yes, this is the answer. "Absent lovers" likely just means the "singer" is feeling lonely, just as the Beats were all quite lonely and independent.