I think this song was written about Princess Diana of the UK. Just wanting to get away from everything and everyone. It was written around ‘96, when she wanted out of the royal family, was dating Dodie Al Fyed (?), etc. To be ‘captured’ here he’s referring to the paparazzi just always hounding her to get photos and snapshots. Literally, laid on a decorated dish, as in all the tacky dishes, mugs etc. with her image at the souvenir shops in London.
“You arrange the mirrors and the spools
To snare the rare and precious jewels
That were only made of paste” - the mirror in the 35mm SLR cameras, and the film spools. The rare and precious photos that are only paper and chemicals.
Next verse—every little thing she says and does is scrutinized. She’s just a human being. The awful truth is that they feel she’s let them down. All the bad stuff about her that came out in the media. Can’t be undone. ‘Just leave me alone. I want to vanish. Be left alone.’
I think this song was written about Princess Diana of the UK. Just wanting to get away from everything and everyone. It was written around ‘96, when she wanted out of the royal family, was dating Dodie Al Fyed (?), etc. To be ‘captured’ here he’s referring to the paparazzi just always hounding her to get photos and snapshots. Literally, laid on a decorated dish, as in all the tacky dishes, mugs etc. with her image at the souvenir shops in London.
“You arrange the mirrors and the spools To snare the rare and precious jewels That were only made of paste” - the mirror in the 35mm SLR cameras, and the film spools. The rare and precious photos that are only paper and chemicals.
Next verse—every little thing she says and does is scrutinized. She’s just a human being. The awful truth is that they feel she’s let them down. All the bad stuff about her that came out in the media. Can’t be undone. ‘Just leave me alone. I want to vanish. Be left alone.’