As often as I've listened to this, I keep coming back to it being a rationalization (or a portrait of someone in denial and rationalizing) deep feelings for someone. Johnette almost seems to scorn any deeper meaning to the feelings, just saying it was "the heat of the night, and love was a blind ambition"...but it also can mean that someone is trying to tell themselves that while still feeling deeply. With Johnette, it could go either way. Freakin' great band, great song.
As often as I've listened to this, I keep coming back to it being a rationalization (or a portrait of someone in denial and rationalizing) deep feelings for someone. Johnette almost seems to scorn any deeper meaning to the feelings, just saying it was "the heat of the night, and love was a blind ambition"...but it also can mean that someone is trying to tell themselves that while still feeling deeply. With Johnette, it could go either way. Freakin' great band, great song.