| The Stranglers – Golden Brown Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Mbarak:4310] That's actually a quite brilliant insight. Cheers. | |
| The Stranglers – Golden Brown Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Satan:4309]-lordofdarkness666 Any references for all that, or are you just guessing? Golden skin isn't restricted to the middle east, and how do you know for a fact that it's "TWO" distant lands and not "to"? Is there a lyric sheet in the record or something? Hugh Cornwell said that it applies to both women and heroin, not that it's about them seperately as two entities... Just that it can mean either. Why would the "prostitute" and the heroin be in two different places? And for that matter, where did the prostitute thing come into play to begin with? And why Saudi Arabia? If you're referring to the video, it's filmed in Egypt, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, London England, and Iran. | |
| The Stranglers – Golden Brown Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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In the 2001 book on the Stranglers, Hugh (who wrote the song) said "it works on two levels, it's about heroin and also about a girl", "both provided me with pleasurable times". As far as I know, it isn't specifically about "a prostitute" like someone else said. Hugh nailed it though and the parallels are perfect. Every verse can be about a girl or heroin,depending on what you want it to mean. First: Give in with a smile and let it/her take away your mind/might for the night. No need to fight... Second: Take you away "by both hands" to (metaphorical) distant lands with little regard for safety (tied to the mast = Odysseus). Third: Over time it/she is moving on, moving forward,going away. West could mean either to "the new world" (in parallel with the ship travel) or along a trade route from the East, as herion is moved. There and gone in a day could also be either a fling you can't quite catch, or your stash. Good freakin song. Strangely I always thought it was just about a girl. I started looking into its meaning shortly after my buddy who played it religiously died of an overdose. Felt like an idiot when I learned what I know now... |
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