This is story of lost love told to a friend (or shrink) by a man in the TV industry, which is based in Culver City, California The speaker, the man, who is and has always been emotionally inhibited, talks about a torrid affair with an actress who was older than he was, a wildly uninhibited one, that burnt out. The reasons are obscure, but the reference to a Dr. Warren Kruger, indicates that it was medical -- possibly the actress's death from cancer (a real cancer doctor) or a drug overdose (it doesn't really matter).
The speaker indicates that the woman was thawing him out emotionally, possibly by drugs (he says he was "Kid Clean): she brought him close to a "Cosmic Wow!" -- but not all the way there.
Now that she's out of his life, he's depressed. He knows that his life in television is empty, that trends ("crests of waves") in TV production are vapid "nothing special", but it's his job.
So, now his social life is limited to gazing at hot chicks in bars and restaurants, who are easy to pick up but do nothing to inject a sense of meaning or personal fulfillment to his life. (I read "Hooterie" as sexual dalliances). Port Blanc is white port wine, very sweet desert wine. It is a metaphor for the empty sweetness of sex without love, with someone who can never be your soul mate.
The "tryanny of the disallowed" is the brutal finality of being closed off by death or breakup from a deeply meaningful relationship.
This is story of lost love told to a friend (or shrink) by a man in the TV industry, which is based in Culver City, California The speaker, the man, who is and has always been emotionally inhibited, talks about a torrid affair with an actress who was older than he was, a wildly uninhibited one, that burnt out. The reasons are obscure, but the reference to a Dr. Warren Kruger, indicates that it was medical -- possibly the actress's death from cancer (a real cancer doctor) or a drug overdose (it doesn't really matter).
The speaker indicates that the woman was thawing him out emotionally, possibly by drugs (he says he was "Kid Clean): she brought him close to a "Cosmic Wow!" -- but not all the way there.
Now that she's out of his life, he's depressed. He knows that his life in television is empty, that trends ("crests of waves") in TV production are vapid "nothing special", but it's his job.
So, now his social life is limited to gazing at hot chicks in bars and restaurants, who are easy to pick up but do nothing to inject a sense of meaning or personal fulfillment to his life. (I read "Hooterie" as sexual dalliances). Port Blanc is white port wine, very sweet desert wine. It is a metaphor for the empty sweetness of sex without love, with someone who can never be your soul mate.
The "tryanny of the disallowed" is the brutal finality of being closed off by death or breakup from a deeply meaningful relationship.
I'm Kid Clean.... ;-)
I'm Kid Clean.... ;-)
WOW! Brilliant break down of the song!
WOW! Brilliant break down of the song!