Lyric discussion by JJKelsall 

Cover art for Dazzle lyrics by Siouxsie and the Banshees

SIOUXSIE: "The sentiment behind it is of lying in the gutter but still looking up at the stars. I’d seen ‘Marathon Man’, and I was really intrigued by the guy swallowing diamonds to keep them, and then realising it was like swallowing glass - that they would pass through his system and tear him apart. So that’s the line - ‘Swallowing diamonds, cutting throats’. " Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92.

SIOUXSIE: "Quite a lot of this, and ‘Swimming Horses’, came from visiting Israel for the first time. ’The sea of fluid mercury’ in the lyric, is the Dead Sea." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92.

@JJKelsall I’ve slept in a gutter. Once. I love that I found this today. Come a long way from that time. I’ve always been drawn to this song. Saw her in concert for the Cities in Dust tour. One of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen!