I agree with Mr. Shatter, the lyrics sound like the words of a paranoid on dope, alone in his room of hell. I particularly appreciate the slow, simple, and hypnotic melody, with the rhythm at 75,5 BPM, surely suitable to heavy metal. Differently from heavy metal, this song is based on a refined linguistic ambivalence. By one side, it appears as an adaptation of "The Dumb Waiter", by Harold Pinter, one-act play written in 1957, where the word "waiter" is related to food. The mysterious and dark atmosphere seems to be the same. To the other side, I think that the band also wanted to describe a peculiar point of view, of a kind of man waiting for "paper" as a corrispective of his "dumb" activity, in fear of "Mrs. London" and his "son". The type of man of the song wants all your "paper", of course money, partly to buy a "gun" (personal defence) and a "train" (way to escape). Who is he? Possibly a drug dealer, given that in London the narcotic police (the "son") belongs to the City administration ("Mrs. London").In one word, the song is
"fantastic", even if a little bit devilish.
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down.
“Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality .
This is a very clever song lyrically and musically,...
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down.
“Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality .
This is a very clever song lyrically and musically, The Furs are probably my favourite band as they give singular perspectives , other worldly (higher perspective.)
I agree with Mr. Shatter, the lyrics sound like the words of a paranoid on dope, alone in his room of hell. I particularly appreciate the slow, simple, and hypnotic melody, with the rhythm at 75,5 BPM, surely suitable to heavy metal. Differently from heavy metal, this song is based on a refined linguistic ambivalence. By one side, it appears as an adaptation of "The Dumb Waiter", by Harold Pinter, one-act play written in 1957, where the word "waiter" is related to food. The mysterious and dark atmosphere seems to be the same. To the other side, I think that the band also wanted to describe a peculiar point of view, of a kind of man waiting for "paper" as a corrispective of his "dumb" activity, in fear of "Mrs. London" and his "son". The type of man of the song wants all your "paper", of course money, partly to buy a "gun" (personal defence) and a "train" (way to escape). Who is he? Possibly a drug dealer, given that in London the narcotic police (the "son") belongs to the City administration ("Mrs. London").In one word, the song is "fantastic", even if a little bit devilish.
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down. “Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality . This is a very clever song lyrically and musically,...
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down. “Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality . This is a very clever song lyrically and musically, The Furs are probably my favourite band as they give singular perspectives , other worldly (higher perspective.)