It's both a love song and a political song. Jim Kerr of Simple Minds mentioned it was based on an article he had read about Poland trying to gain it's independence from Russia, and that there were a lot of Polish political prisoners in Russia.
The article he had read was about the wives of those political prisoners and how they felt. Some of the lines of the song are taken from the interviews of those women.
So, it's about long-distance relationships, love, politics, freedom... all the things we've come to expect from Simple Minds.
It's both a love song and a political song. Jim Kerr of Simple Minds mentioned it was based on an article he had read about Poland trying to gain it's independence from Russia, and that there were a lot of Polish political prisoners in Russia.
The article he had read was about the wives of those political prisoners and how they felt. Some of the lines of the song are taken from the interviews of those women.
So, it's about long-distance relationships, love, politics, freedom... all the things we've come to expect from Simple Minds.