I think (amongst other things) he's gently taking the piss out of the suburban ideal. And er..it's about his depression.
Scott actually lived on an upmarket street called Montague ? in London in the mid 60s (I can't recall the exact locale, but the end bit wasn't Terrace), and Keith Moon lived in the same block of flats...consequently the road was often filled with fans circa 1966.
He's sat in silence in the flat and registering the noises of suburban life going on around him, while for him the clock has stopped. To support this viewpoint-I think it's also the flat where he tried to kill himself, a well trod episode in his biog. The flats also overlooked a large park (when I could recall where it was I checked it out ) which gives us the trees he's looking out at.
Scott also uses living spaces as a metaphor for his mental state elsewhere in his songs.
@splod correction-Scott lived in a flat on Ormonde Terrace, St John's Wood, which overlooks Regent's Park. But I think it's the setting of the song, and 'Montague' just sounded grander and more poetic, or conveys that it's a posh address to be idealised/satirized -'In Blue'-more readily.
@splod correction-Scott lived in a flat on Ormonde Terrace, St John's Wood, which overlooks Regent's Park. But I think it's the setting of the song, and 'Montague' just sounded grander and more poetic, or conveys that it's a posh address to be idealised/satirized -'In Blue'-more readily.
I think (amongst other things) he's gently taking the piss out of the suburban ideal. And er..it's about his depression.
Scott actually lived on an upmarket street called Montague ? in London in the mid 60s (I can't recall the exact locale, but the end bit wasn't Terrace), and Keith Moon lived in the same block of flats...consequently the road was often filled with fans circa 1966.
He's sat in silence in the flat and registering the noises of suburban life going on around him, while for him the clock has stopped. To support this viewpoint-I think it's also the flat where he tried to kill himself, a well trod episode in his biog. The flats also overlooked a large park (when I could recall where it was I checked it out ) which gives us the trees he's looking out at. Scott also uses living spaces as a metaphor for his mental state elsewhere in his songs.
@splod correction-Scott lived in a flat on Ormonde Terrace, St John's Wood, which overlooks Regent's Park. But I think it's the setting of the song, and 'Montague' just sounded grander and more poetic, or conveys that it's a posh address to be idealised/satirized -'In Blue'-more readily.
@splod correction-Scott lived in a flat on Ormonde Terrace, St John's Wood, which overlooks Regent's Park. But I think it's the setting of the song, and 'Montague' just sounded grander and more poetic, or conveys that it's a posh address to be idealised/satirized -'In Blue'-more readily.