Richard Butler wrote these lyrics when he was a teenager, years before he and his brother co-founded the Furs. His own explanation is, "It's very personal, but I don't know what it means", so I don't know how much hope the rest of us have for figuring it out.
But if you look at the lyrics, half of the songs on the first album (Fall, Pulse, Flowers, We Love You, and Soap Commercial) seem like they're expanding on ideas he first wrote in this song. Dancing, spinning under the ceiling, useless lives, stupid love, the stupid sea, flowers, carpets… Maybe this song is just all the visions and ideas spinning around young Richard Butler's head that drove him to become a lyricist.
I think the meanings he attached to all these images in later songs (flowers and carpets being about opiates, love being a trap created to trap you in middle class society, etc.) may be unrelated to the original meanings in this song.
But whoever the Caroline is in this song, I'm guessing she laughs when it's raining all day.
@falcotron Nope, Caroline is mucking up the order at the Indian restaurant as "She lives in the place in the side of our lives/Where nothing is ever put straight" like your order. The rain is a metaphor for her tears at getting no tips because she's bad at her job...or it's the Land Of Eng where it rains all the time.
@falcotron Nope, Caroline is mucking up the order at the Indian restaurant as "She lives in the place in the side of our lives/Where nothing is ever put straight" like your order. The rain is a metaphor for her tears at getting no tips because she's bad at her job...or it's the Land Of Eng where it rains all the time.
Richard Butler wrote these lyrics when he was a teenager, years before he and his brother co-founded the Furs. His own explanation is, "It's very personal, but I don't know what it means", so I don't know how much hope the rest of us have for figuring it out.
But if you look at the lyrics, half of the songs on the first album (Fall, Pulse, Flowers, We Love You, and Soap Commercial) seem like they're expanding on ideas he first wrote in this song. Dancing, spinning under the ceiling, useless lives, stupid love, the stupid sea, flowers, carpets… Maybe this song is just all the visions and ideas spinning around young Richard Butler's head that drove him to become a lyricist.
I think the meanings he attached to all these images in later songs (flowers and carpets being about opiates, love being a trap created to trap you in middle class society, etc.) may be unrelated to the original meanings in this song.
But whoever the Caroline is in this song, I'm guessing she laughs when it's raining all day.
@falcotron Nope, Caroline is mucking up the order at the Indian restaurant as "She lives in the place in the side of our lives/Where nothing is ever put straight" like your order. The rain is a metaphor for her tears at getting no tips because she's bad at her job...or it's the Land Of Eng where it rains all the time.
@falcotron Nope, Caroline is mucking up the order at the Indian restaurant as "She lives in the place in the side of our lives/Where nothing is ever put straight" like your order. The rain is a metaphor for her tears at getting no tips because she's bad at her job...or it's the Land Of Eng where it rains all the time.
Anyway, there ya go.
Anyway, there ya go.