The chorus: "Hey! Ho!" might be a reference to the Ramones (who sparked the UK punk movement when they toured in 1976 and 77) song "Blitzkrieg Bop" 1975, which is a song about rebellious teenagers have sex or auto-erotica in the backseat of cars.
Having "a teddy bear clamped between her knees" might mean she is a little Daddy's girl, and might be another reference to Master-bating.
Her loverman is "down here" "with a party of penguins", south of the equator, in Antarctica.
Nick Cave's band the Birthday Party and his lover, Anita Lane, moved from south of the equator, Australia to London in 1980.
"Once I was your hearts desire, now I am the ape hunkered by the fire" I'm taking a leap but I think that he is saying when they were lovers he was lifted up into an almost sacred state of mind, but now separated, he feels like a less evolved ape.
"You float by so majestically" might mean she is a ghost, either literally or metaphorically -the memories of her that haunt him.
"turned the mirrors to the wall" is an old practice when someone died, to protect the soul of the departed, because it was thought the soul could become trapped inside a mirror, rather than going to heaven where it would be at peace.
"I touch your hair and it cuts me like a knife, for there is always something other, little thing, you gotta do" I'm not sure what this means except he is feels she is running away from him and that rejection hurts him, his deep desire for her, hurts him.
She is a ghost, in the sense that her memory haunts him. When he chases her, she eludes him, but if he gets close enough to stroke her spectral hair, it only causes him injury.
The chorus: "Hey! Ho!" might be a reference to the Ramones (who sparked the UK punk movement when they toured in 1976 and 77) song "Blitzkrieg Bop" 1975, which is a song about rebellious teenagers have sex or auto-erotica in the backseat of cars.
Having "a teddy bear clamped between her knees" might mean she is a little Daddy's girl, and might be another reference to Master-bating.
Her loverman is "down here" "with a party of penguins", south of the equator, in Antarctica.
Nick Cave's band the Birthday Party and his lover, Anita Lane, moved from south of the equator, Australia to London in 1980.
"Once I was your hearts desire, now I am the ape hunkered by the fire" I'm taking a leap but I think that he is saying when they were lovers he was lifted up into an almost sacred state of mind, but now separated, he feels like a less evolved ape.
"You float by so majestically" might mean she is a ghost, either literally or metaphorically -the memories of her that haunt him.
"turned the mirrors to the wall" is an old practice when someone died, to protect the soul of the departed, because it was thought the soul could become trapped inside a mirror, rather than going to heaven where it would be at peace.
"I touch your hair and it cuts me like a knife, for there is always something other, little thing, you gotta do" I'm not sure what this means except he is feels she is running away from him and that rejection hurts him, his deep desire for her, hurts him.
She is a ghost, in the sense that her memory haunts him. When he chases her, she eludes him, but if he gets close enough to stroke her spectral hair, it only causes him injury.
Sorry I meant to spell that as "Master-baiting".
Sorry I meant to spell that as "Master-baiting".