"Baby" is a woman who has been exploited sexually by men with more social power than herself. She is vowing to get something that she values out of the transaction. "A howl of romance" is not all that she wants. She wants all that would come with it. The thing that makes this song so striking is that the words that "Baby" says paints a picture of hopelessness. She is dying to meet "me" and I am given snippets of information that tell me that she is dangerous and desperate and that she has already projected attributes onto me that I may not agree with. She reminds me a bit of Alabama from True Romance. She got her 'howl of romance" but things didn't go too well after that.
"Baby" is a woman who has been exploited sexually by men with more social power than herself. She is vowing to get something that she values out of the transaction. "A howl of romance" is not all that she wants. She wants all that would come with it. The thing that makes this song so striking is that the words that "Baby" says paints a picture of hopelessness. She is dying to meet "me" and I am given snippets of information that tell me that she is dangerous and desperate and that she has already projected attributes onto me that I may not agree with. She reminds me a bit of Alabama from True Romance. She got her 'howl of romance" but things didn't go too well after that.