Apparently Rocky was a homeless person who stayed across the road from Paul (Noonan - the lead singer) when he lived in Smithfield, Dublin.
The story goes that one morning he came across him and he had 'pulled' (i.e. he managed to bring some girl back with him), which led Paul to imagining how the conversation between them might go.
The lyrics are absolutely amazing:
"He said 'I wanna shine in the eye of Orion
But I drove my soul through the Black Hole!'
She said 'What a wonderful way to wake me"
How lyrical, how beautiful - it reminds me of Yeats so much - a complete romantic dreamer (and it even has a nice Oscar Wilde reference in here too: "And from this gutter we're still staring at the stars")... fantastic.
Apparently Rocky was a homeless person who stayed across the road from Paul (Noonan - the lead singer) when he lived in Smithfield, Dublin.
The story goes that one morning he came across him and he had 'pulled' (i.e. he managed to bring some girl back with him), which led Paul to imagining how the conversation between them might go.
The lyrics are absolutely amazing:
"He said 'I wanna shine in the eye of Orion But I drove my soul through the Black Hole!' She said 'What a wonderful way to wake me"
How lyrical, how beautiful - it reminds me of Yeats so much - a complete romantic dreamer (and it even has a nice Oscar Wilde reference in here too: "And from this gutter we're still staring at the stars")... fantastic.
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