The Darkness on the edge of town is the hinterland where the true artist and seeker thrives, away from the comforts of suburbia and the values of the bourgeois life style. It’s where a person can feel more alive and in touch with reality. It is the option any one of us can take if we are prepared to ‘pay the cost’ i.e. lose those material, mind numbing comforts. The only bitterness he may feel is not one of comparing his lot (or material wellbeing) against that of his erstwhile wife who is living in Fairview but that she couldn’t see what he could in living a life on the ‘edge’ of society; ‘that blood it never burnt in her veins’. Some of you would benefit from reading Colin Wilson’s Outsider then this whole album would truly come alive for you; but then again if the ‘blood doesn’t burn in your veins’ you wouldn’t ‘get’ that either.
The Darkness on the edge of town is the hinterland where the true artist and seeker thrives, away from the comforts of suburbia and the values of the bourgeois life style. It’s where a person can feel more alive and in touch with reality. It is the option any one of us can take if we are prepared to ‘pay the cost’ i.e. lose those material, mind numbing comforts. The only bitterness he may feel is not one of comparing his lot (or material wellbeing) against that of his erstwhile wife who is living in Fairview but that she couldn’t see what he could in living a life on the ‘edge’ of society; ‘that blood it never burnt in her veins’. Some of you would benefit from reading Colin Wilson’s Outsider then this whole album would truly come alive for you; but then again if the ‘blood doesn’t burn in your veins’ you wouldn’t ‘get’ that either.