I love this song because it's one of the few songs on the album that has a dead-simple and obvious message, but it's packed full of the same kind of metaphorical imagery as the other songs anyway, which makes it much more powerful. (Also, the music is just ridiculously catchy.)
Love and marriage is stupid, it's a trap that the stupid bourgeois middle-class use to tie their stupid selves down so nobody has to do it for them. A couple having the perfect romantic vacation is no different from a sailor's shore-leave infatuation; it's all the same stupid illusion.
And the title: It's called "falling" in love for a reason—because it's the same thing as falling down, falling to dust, falling apart, all the stuff this whole album is about. Love and marriage can't save you from falling, all it can do is make you fall apart together at the same time you fall apart from each other.
I love this song because it's one of the few songs on the album that has a dead-simple and obvious message, but it's packed full of the same kind of metaphorical imagery as the other songs anyway, which makes it much more powerful. (Also, the music is just ridiculously catchy.)
Love and marriage is stupid, it's a trap that the stupid bourgeois middle-class use to tie their stupid selves down so nobody has to do it for them. A couple having the perfect romantic vacation is no different from a sailor's shore-leave infatuation; it's all the same stupid illusion.
And the title: It's called "falling" in love for a reason—because it's the same thing as falling down, falling to dust, falling apart, all the stuff this whole album is about. Love and marriage can't save you from falling, all it can do is make you fall apart together at the same time you fall apart from each other.