Much as I love this song, I keep getting the feeling it's about some kind of rape. Frankly, I tend to feel this way about the Monkeys and I think it's the menacing tone they manage to find, but I'll try and bear this out.
The bridge is where this whole idea comes from. I heard this song dozens of times before the narrative flow in this section started to sink in with me. It flows from pouring the last drinks (presumably, "one for the road" a round for both parties) into the mixture hitting her hard, comforting her against the sinking and falling apart, and then straight into discordant music and disaster.
The first lyrics in the song speak of a "relegation zone." I'm not a dictionary, so if you don't know what relegate means, look that up. It's got a negative connotation which goes really well with the word "zone. You've got a definite motive in the first verse.
I am basically thinking, frustrated friend zone situation boiling over into a drugging. Of course most of the lyrics are supporting the drug experience, as you can see from others comments.
In the chorus, it seems we follow a group back to "her" place, and the question is... once everyone is gone, will you pour me (I think, meaning "us") one last drink. This would be where the drugging presumably occurs.
In that light, "I knew this would be on the cards / I knew you wouldn't fold" becomes somewhat chilling. More chilling than that, the concept that the narrative isn't an isolated incident ("...no need to show me around... / ...I've been in here before...").
I love this song. Love it so much. But it's hard to hear without hearing this, and I wish someone could dissolve the guilt and convince me I'm wrong. It's a great song but it's gonna end up in my mind right there along side a song like "Every Step You Take."
Much as I love this song, I keep getting the feeling it's about some kind of rape. Frankly, I tend to feel this way about the Monkeys and I think it's the menacing tone they manage to find, but I'll try and bear this out.
The bridge is where this whole idea comes from. I heard this song dozens of times before the narrative flow in this section started to sink in with me. It flows from pouring the last drinks (presumably, "one for the road" a round for both parties) into the mixture hitting her hard, comforting her against the sinking and falling apart, and then straight into discordant music and disaster.
The first lyrics in the song speak of a "relegation zone." I'm not a dictionary, so if you don't know what relegate means, look that up. It's got a negative connotation which goes really well with the word "zone. You've got a definite motive in the first verse.
I am basically thinking, frustrated friend zone situation boiling over into a drugging. Of course most of the lyrics are supporting the drug experience, as you can see from others comments.
In the chorus, it seems we follow a group back to "her" place, and the question is... once everyone is gone, will you pour me (I think, meaning "us") one last drink. This would be where the drugging presumably occurs.
In that light, "I knew this would be on the cards / I knew you wouldn't fold" becomes somewhat chilling. More chilling than that, the concept that the narrative isn't an isolated incident ("...no need to show me around... / ...I've been in here before...").
I love this song. Love it so much. But it's hard to hear without hearing this, and I wish someone could dissolve the guilt and convince me I'm wrong. It's a great song but it's gonna end up in my mind right there along side a song like "Every Step You Take."