He tells the story of two young lovers who've absconded together, traveling and exploring the shores of Alaska. Her father soon catches up to her and tells her she's relying on her to behave, although she doesn't want to (the cascading chorus implies that it's something that stays in her mind throughout their journey - an echo that plays over and over).
They spend time together, giving her mother false accounts of good behaviour and doing what young lovers do (A report, of sorts). But soon after the boy realises it's real love (more than just like and lust, illustrated both by saying 'the sutra didn't suit you' and the singular harmonic electric guitar note), she abruptly leaves him and returns to her parents (leaving him 'on the lam'). The last chorus is the boy lamenting the fact she's back 'inside the lade' (at home, with her strict parents), having repaved the long red road they took together.
The Bukowski poem serves as a complimentary piece, the shower deals with what's after sex - raw emotion, explicit love, and heartbreak when she's not there. To have Bukowski breaking down during the reading is an incredibly profound image, and one that illustrates the boy's feelings perfectly.
He tells the story of two young lovers who've absconded together, traveling and exploring the shores of Alaska. Her father soon catches up to her and tells her she's relying on her to behave, although she doesn't want to (the cascading chorus implies that it's something that stays in her mind throughout their journey - an echo that plays over and over).
They spend time together, giving her mother false accounts of good behaviour and doing what young lovers do (A report, of sorts). But soon after the boy realises it's real love (more than just like and lust, illustrated both by saying 'the sutra didn't suit you' and the singular harmonic electric guitar note), she abruptly leaves him and returns to her parents (leaving him 'on the lam'). The last chorus is the boy lamenting the fact she's back 'inside the lade' (at home, with her strict parents), having repaved the long red road they took together.
The Bukowski poem serves as a complimentary piece, the shower deals with what's after sex - raw emotion, explicit love, and heartbreak when she's not there. To have Bukowski breaking down during the reading is an incredibly profound image, and one that illustrates the boy's feelings perfectly.