I love this song and I can't believe The Blue Nile doesn't have more comments about their songs since they were such a unique and vibrant band.
I don't think the lyrics are trying to pin it down to any one city. Although Los Angeles/Hollywood is often known as "Tinseltown" it can be more generally applied to any city with glamorous things. The implication is, like tinsel, there are shiny and pretty things, but they may just be on the surface instead of having any deep meaning.
When he says "I love you" it is "easy come, easy go" just like the superficial aspects of Tinseltown. I get the impression that this is a new love of infatuation and it's easy to say those things but maybe they aren't all that relevant in the face of time passing since he's seen them all before. What about in 6 months or a year from now, what will have changed in his love and in the city?
The song pulls back to a long view of everything. The city is "a big rhythm" made of men and women going about their lives. Everyone is at the mercy of forces outside of their control. They city is in the rain and despite its glamor and the buildings reaching to the sky it can't change the natural forces of the weather acting on it. The people in the city have their individual lives, but when you look at it from far away, each is a buzzing part of the life of the city and doesn't seem that individual.
At the same time, new love is wonderful and full of possibilities. Maybe in the this big city there is a place or way "to always feel this way" since it's full of endless possibilities.
It's a picture of contrasts, of being in love, of sometime falling out of love, of the personal, the impersonal, the glamorous and the ways the glamor that maybe doesn't mean that much to the forces of nature and maybe an infatuation stand out much in the buzzing of the life of the city where there is so much life and so many loves.
I love this song and I can't believe The Blue Nile doesn't have more comments about their songs since they were such a unique and vibrant band.
I don't think the lyrics are trying to pin it down to any one city. Although Los Angeles/Hollywood is often known as "Tinseltown" it can be more generally applied to any city with glamorous things. The implication is, like tinsel, there are shiny and pretty things, but they may just be on the surface instead of having any deep meaning.
When he says "I love you" it is "easy come, easy go" just like the superficial aspects of Tinseltown. I get the impression that this is a new love of infatuation and it's easy to say those things but maybe they aren't all that relevant in the face of time passing since he's seen them all before. What about in 6 months or a year from now, what will have changed in his love and in the city?
The song pulls back to a long view of everything. The city is "a big rhythm" made of men and women going about their lives. Everyone is at the mercy of forces outside of their control. They city is in the rain and despite its glamor and the buildings reaching to the sky it can't change the natural forces of the weather acting on it. The people in the city have their individual lives, but when you look at it from far away, each is a buzzing part of the life of the city and doesn't seem that individual.
At the same time, new love is wonderful and full of possibilities. Maybe in the this big city there is a place or way "to always feel this way" since it's full of endless possibilities.
It's a picture of contrasts, of being in love, of sometime falling out of love, of the personal, the impersonal, the glamorous and the ways the glamor that maybe doesn't mean that much to the forces of nature and maybe an infatuation stand out much in the buzzing of the life of the city where there is so much life and so many loves.