This is one of those songs that is so much more than the lyrics written out would suggest. You can say that about a lot of songs, but here Mark's vocals and the use of Erik Satie quotes really bring out the yearning in this song, which is obviously about star-crossed lovers with no place to safely be together. I see it as something of a continuation of the Pop Group's Savage Sea, which is about the same subject.
This is one of those songs that is so much more than the lyrics written out would suggest. You can say that about a lot of songs, but here Mark's vocals and the use of Erik Satie quotes really bring out the yearning in this song, which is obviously about star-crossed lovers with no place to safely be together. I see it as something of a continuation of the Pop Group's Savage Sea, which is about the same subject.