This song is musically one of the Manics' best I think. The lyrics are really interesting. I was thinking the other say about the line "Vulture stalked white-piped lie forever", which is a pretty bizarre lyric. But it made me think how ironic it was that Carter was photographing a vulture when the press (particularly the paparazzi) are often described as "vultures", making him the kind of super-vulture in that situation. Thinking about it like that, it doesn't exactly surprise me that he killed himself.
This song is musically one of the Manics' best I think. The lyrics are really interesting. I was thinking the other say about the line "Vulture stalked white-piped lie forever", which is a pretty bizarre lyric. But it made me think how ironic it was that Carter was photographing a vulture when the press (particularly the paparazzi) are often described as "vultures", making him the kind of super-vulture in that situation. Thinking about it like that, it doesn't exactly surprise me that he killed himself.