This is a song about a couple of faggot bandits, as Cale once said. It's a song about the thread of trust between men who commit crimes together, and how that thread is stretched to the breaking point by forces neither of them can control or understand. They may both understand why their separation is necessary, but that doesn't make it any easier to take. It's a song about the eventual impossibility of love in the context of a society based upon laws. Without the opportunity to break those laws together, the love couldn't be so strong. But because those laws are imperishable and inexclusive, the relationship becomes impossible in the long run. Love outlasts the relationship. And all you've got to do is go down there and open your big, fat mouth. If I saw you again, I wouldn't know whether to hug your or kill you. Love, in the end, is a messy liability, and all that makes life worth living.
This is a song about a couple of faggot bandits, as Cale once said. It's a song about the thread of trust between men who commit crimes together, and how that thread is stretched to the breaking point by forces neither of them can control or understand. They may both understand why their separation is necessary, but that doesn't make it any easier to take. It's a song about the eventual impossibility of love in the context of a society based upon laws. Without the opportunity to break those laws together, the love couldn't be so strong. But because those laws are imperishable and inexclusive, the relationship becomes impossible in the long run. Love outlasts the relationship. And all you've got to do is go down there and open your big, fat mouth. If I saw you again, I wouldn't know whether to hug your or kill you. Love, in the end, is a messy liability, and all that makes life worth living.