Well...kinda obvious, right? ;) Sex, no romance, just good hard sex and no complications. The protagonist is being completely honest in a world where dishonesty and false promises prevail. Quite an astonishing song for its time. The Furs first two albums were filled with honest rage which later became muted with their quest for mainstream acceptance. A shame, really. This song is absolutely brilliant.
@FolsomFred "If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all,
Then you are all so wrong."
@FolsomFred "If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all,
Then you are all so wrong."
The song slows down just to let him make this point. Sure, he wishes he was beyond the hypocritical notion of love and romance, that he could just have fun and have it mean nothing more than that. He doesn't want to tape you down and shack you up with him. And yet, he knows that he's no better than anyone else, and when it comes down to it, he's as likely to fall in stupid love as anyone else.
@FolsomFred Also, the rage came back after the artistic (if not commercial) failure of Midnight to Midnight. If you haven't listened to say, "House" since it came out, give it another try. Sure, the anger of Book of Days is more that of a bitter old man than of a nihilistic young art student, but it's just as angry, and nothing at all like the self-restrained mediocrity of Midnight and Mirror Moves.
@FolsomFred Also, the rage came back after the artistic (if not commercial) failure of Midnight to Midnight. If you haven't listened to say, "House" since it came out, give it another try. Sure, the anger of Book of Days is more that of a bitter old man than of a nihilistic young art student, but it's just as angry, and nothing at all like the self-restrained mediocrity of Midnight and Mirror Moves.
Of course I still listen to the first two albums a lot more often… but not being as great as Talk Talk Talk is hardly a shattering criticism; most things in the universe aren't as great as Talk Talk Talk.
Well...kinda obvious, right? ;) Sex, no romance, just good hard sex and no complications. The protagonist is being completely honest in a world where dishonesty and false promises prevail. Quite an astonishing song for its time. The Furs first two albums were filled with honest rage which later became muted with their quest for mainstream acceptance. A shame, really. This song is absolutely brilliant.
@FolsomFred "If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all, Then you are all so wrong."
@FolsomFred "If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all, Then you are all so wrong."
The song slows down just to let him make this point. Sure, he wishes he was beyond the hypocritical notion of love and romance, that he could just have fun and have it mean nothing more than that. He doesn't want to tape you down and shack you up with him. And yet, he knows that he's no better than anyone else, and when it comes down to it, he's as likely to fall in stupid love as anyone else.
@FolsomFred Also, the rage came back after the artistic (if not commercial) failure of Midnight to Midnight. If you haven't listened to say, "House" since it came out, give it another try. Sure, the anger of Book of Days is more that of a bitter old man than of a nihilistic young art student, but it's just as angry, and nothing at all like the self-restrained mediocrity of Midnight and Mirror Moves.
@FolsomFred Also, the rage came back after the artistic (if not commercial) failure of Midnight to Midnight. If you haven't listened to say, "House" since it came out, give it another try. Sure, the anger of Book of Days is more that of a bitter old man than of a nihilistic young art student, but it's just as angry, and nothing at all like the self-restrained mediocrity of Midnight and Mirror Moves.
Of course I still listen to the first two albums a lot more often… but not being as great as Talk Talk Talk is hardly a shattering criticism; most things in the universe aren't as great as Talk Talk Talk.