I have just fallen in love with this song. Also, nobody should be looking too much into the lyrics. It's pretty straight forward.
Romance is the second meaning of this song. The first stanza is obviously a setting up of a situation. Banks is in love with a girl and says to take a chance with him. This much is obvious.
But I believe underneath the surface of this romantic setting is a fragile alcoholic who wants fixing. There's lots of lines that mention his alcoholism, most notably
I'll stand by all this drinking if it helps me through these days
and
because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell
The second line makes it seem like the narrator is a social drinker, drinking more due to peer pressure.
"If you can fix me up girl" pretty much says it all - the narrator is desperately looking for someone to help him with his alcoholism. it's difficult to interpret the final part where Paul hits the falsetto notes. He may be saying it in a positive light that he DID find the person that fixed him. Or the process of finding a new lover after new lover is happening again and he's continuing his desperate search for "the one".
I have just fallen in love with this song. Also, nobody should be looking too much into the lyrics. It's pretty straight forward.
Romance is the second meaning of this song. The first stanza is obviously a setting up of a situation. Banks is in love with a girl and says to take a chance with him. This much is obvious.
But I believe underneath the surface of this romantic setting is a fragile alcoholic who wants fixing. There's lots of lines that mention his alcoholism, most notably I'll stand by all this drinking if it helps me through these days
and
because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell
The second line makes it seem like the narrator is a social drinker, drinking more due to peer pressure.
"If you can fix me up girl" pretty much says it all - the narrator is desperately looking for someone to help him with his alcoholism. it's difficult to interpret the final part where Paul hits the falsetto notes. He may be saying it in a positive light that he DID find the person that fixed him. Or the process of finding a new lover after new lover is happening again and he's continuing his desperate search for "the one".