As with many of Walker's songs there is a darkness underneath the smooth, bond-like presentation. Walker is clearly riffing on Eliot's The Love Song Of J Alfred Priufrock here with the title and both are concerened with the desires and longings of a middle aged nobody wishing for more. Here it becomes clear that our poor Humphrey is being passed by and over in the career stakes and is chafing at a life of droll domesticity: kids, roller skates and telly. His one escape is a brothel in Channing ("enchanting") Way, where Ann and Corrina transport our deflated portagonist to somewhere else for a while.....Walker leaves this sadly devastating conclusion to the very end. By this time we are seduced by the song and indeed forget our own troubles for a while......10/10
As with many of Walker's songs there is a darkness underneath the smooth, bond-like presentation. Walker is clearly riffing on Eliot's The Love Song Of J Alfred Priufrock here with the title and both are concerened with the desires and longings of a middle aged nobody wishing for more. Here it becomes clear that our poor Humphrey is being passed by and over in the career stakes and is chafing at a life of droll domesticity: kids, roller skates and telly. His one escape is a brothel in Channing ("enchanting") Way, where Ann and Corrina transport our deflated portagonist to somewhere else for a while.....Walker leaves this sadly devastating conclusion to the very end. By this time we are seduced by the song and indeed forget our own troubles for a while......10/10