Oh "LeGrand"...I am so sorry to blow your ideas of a global message but this one is pretty simple and pretty specific to B&S...
The song is a direct reference to rejecting the glamor and limelight of their growing fame and wanting to return home...
"Let me feel the air again, the talk of friends
The mind of someone my equal"
is a clue but the obvious one is..
"Tinseltown has followed me from Tinseltown to
Grey adorable city by the docks
Girls will walk in moving air
The sun hangs low, the girls don't care
As they paint themselves at dusk "
Tinseltown is any US city but likely Los Angeles...Hollywood is often referred to a Tinseltown in Scotland.
The Grey Adorable city by the docks is a direct reference to Glasgow, where B&S are from. The "grey" comes from the sandstone used to build many of the buildings while the docks comes from the shipbuilding on the River Clyde.
"The sun hangs low"...Scottish weather!
"the girls don't care. As they paint themselves at dusk "...the Glasgow nightlife.
The final verse is an interesting one...I think it refers to the adoration of the B&S writing, even their blog...hence the "I want to write a message to you.Every day at ten o'clock in the evening"
"This is your art
This is your Balzac, your Brookside, and your Bach"
I interprete this as a whimsical line-- one of the worst sitcom shows in the UK is sandwiched by a serious French novelist and a great composer- intended to mock the notion of what makes things "art" and how people idolize the randomist things.
Oh "LeGrand"...I am so sorry to blow your ideas of a global message but this one is pretty simple and pretty specific to B&S...
The song is a direct reference to rejecting the glamor and limelight of their growing fame and wanting to return home...
"Let me feel the air again, the talk of friends The mind of someone my equal"
is a clue but the obvious one is..
"Tinseltown has followed me from Tinseltown to Grey adorable city by the docks Girls will walk in moving air The sun hangs low, the girls don't care As they paint themselves at dusk "
Tinseltown is any US city but likely Los Angeles...Hollywood is often referred to a Tinseltown in Scotland. The Grey Adorable city by the docks is a direct reference to Glasgow, where B&S are from. The "grey" comes from the sandstone used to build many of the buildings while the docks comes from the shipbuilding on the River Clyde. "The sun hangs low"...Scottish weather! "the girls don't care. As they paint themselves at dusk "...the Glasgow nightlife.
The final verse is an interesting one...I think it refers to the adoration of the B&S writing, even their blog...hence the "I want to write a message to you.Every day at ten o'clock in the evening"
"This is your art This is your Balzac, your Brookside, and your Bach" I interprete this as a whimsical line-- one of the worst sitcom shows in the UK is sandwiched by a serious French novelist and a great composer- intended to mock the notion of what makes things "art" and how people idolize the randomist things.