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!
@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!
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.
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@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!
@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!