This song sounds kinda rapey, I'll give people that... This could be because the narrator of the song sounds like he's a bit unstable, maybe high, and looking for action, any action. He's all aggressive about it when he's talking to himself the whole song but when he's speaking to another character in the bridge, the music slows down and cleans up and so does his voice. He tries to be all calm and cool but ends up letting her know he's a danger...
Or it was written by a young songwriter who didn't realize who rapey it sounded when he wrote a looking for action song, but I think the lock your doors line in the bridge redeems the song's potential inadvertent rapeyness because it kind of adds depth to the character warning the people around him what he's about to do because he knows he's unstable or fucked up enough to attack someone like that.
So either it's a really clever and super dark character piece about the emotional state of a night prowler put over a happier sounding tune (Like Van Halen's Jump was) or it was written by an, at the time, immature and ametuer songwriter trying to write the first album, not really thinking about lyrics... I'll stick with the former in my mind...
This song sounds kinda rapey, I'll give people that... This could be because the narrator of the song sounds like he's a bit unstable, maybe high, and looking for action, any action. He's all aggressive about it when he's talking to himself the whole song but when he's speaking to another character in the bridge, the music slows down and cleans up and so does his voice. He tries to be all calm and cool but ends up letting her know he's a danger...
Or it was written by a young songwriter who didn't realize who rapey it sounded when he wrote a looking for action song, but I think the lock your doors line in the bridge redeems the song's potential inadvertent rapeyness because it kind of adds depth to the character warning the people around him what he's about to do because he knows he's unstable or fucked up enough to attack someone like that.
So either it's a really clever and super dark character piece about the emotional state of a night prowler put over a happier sounding tune (Like Van Halen's Jump was) or it was written by an, at the time, immature and ametuer songwriter trying to write the first album, not really thinking about lyrics... I'll stick with the former in my mind...