I feel like this song is set in a particular place, like when he wrote it he had a particular city in mind: a broad avenue, a grand hotel with Persian rugs and ivory, red and brown colors, a door that's too short to walk through without leaning over, a big market outside (where they can be alone in the crowd), a place where public displays of affection are frowned upon. It could be Tangier? Istanbul?
I feel like this song is set in a particular place, like when he wrote it he had a particular city in mind: a broad avenue, a grand hotel with Persian rugs and ivory, red and brown colors, a door that's too short to walk through without leaning over, a big market outside (where they can be alone in the crowd), a place where public displays of affection are frowned upon. It could be Tangier? Istanbul?