From a December 2015 blog post by Barry Andrews himself:
"A song enamoured by the whole idea of Women, of pleasure, of the sheer variousness of life. It was a funny old time, that summer. There’s an ‘Apocalypse Now’ reference in the title: colonel Kurtz remembering his life back in Ohio where it seemed: ‘heaven had fallen to earth in the form of.. gardenias’. To tell you the truth, until just now when I Wiki’d it, I had no real idea what a gardenia looked like. Shameful unresearched botanical shit eh?"
From a December 2015 blog post by Barry Andrews himself:
"A song enamoured by the whole idea of Women, of pleasure, of the sheer variousness of life. It was a funny old time, that summer. There’s an ‘Apocalypse Now’ reference in the title: colonel Kurtz remembering his life back in Ohio where it seemed: ‘heaven had fallen to earth in the form of.. gardenias’. To tell you the truth, until just now when I Wiki’d it, I had no real idea what a gardenia looked like. Shameful unresearched botanical shit eh?"