This song explores the confusion associated with infidelity. When guilt over the act competes with the measure of satisfaction infideility brings (else why do it?), the mind goes back and forth with lines like these:
Set aside these vacant rules
then Sorry...How many times must I say
and back to Shoot it now to seal your own fate
Roland makes the little discussed point that getting caught cheating, and even being sorry for it, does not immediately erase all feelings for the new lover. And the mind struggles with the idea of just going back to the old relationship.
When Roland sings these lines
"When you look into these eyes
Do you see civilized
Or son of Sam"
I wonder if he is looking in the mirror trying to determine just what sort of person he is at heart.
This song explores the confusion associated with infidelity. When guilt over the act competes with the measure of satisfaction infideility brings (else why do it?), the mind goes back and forth with lines like these: Set aside these vacant rules then Sorry...How many times must I say and back to Shoot it now to seal your own fate
Roland makes the little discussed point that getting caught cheating, and even being sorry for it, does not immediately erase all feelings for the new lover. And the mind struggles with the idea of just going back to the old relationship.
When Roland sings these lines "When you look into these eyes Do you see civilized Or son of Sam" I wonder if he is looking in the mirror trying to determine just what sort of person he is at heart.