Holiday On The Moon Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Snerbit 

Cover art for Holiday On The Moon lyrics by Love and Rockets

So, my thought on this was that it's about being fed up with life here on Earth, and needing to get away to a bleak and desolate place, away from the influence of humankind.

And I thought it also references drug use, to check out and go to a place like this, inside your head.

And then that whole thing with thanking the president kind of threw me. So I thought maybe, instead of injections of heroin, they were referencing a lethal injection for an inmate on death row. A holiday to the moon, all expenses paid (well, paid for by citizens' taxes), with no hope of ever coming back, sounds a lot like permanently checking out, to me.

Love to hear some other thoughts on this.

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