So, I actually think this song is about a man who has fallen in love with another man.
"Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain"
I've seen a lot of Pink Flamingo's in my day, but never one that wasn't a gay bar...
"And I'm going to make sure it doesn't happen again
You and I had to be the standing joke of the year"
He could be saying that he's terrified of what people think of him and he doesn't want to admit that he's gay.
"Under the deep red lights I can see the makeup sliding down
Well hey little girl you will always make up
So take off that unbecoming frown
As for me, well, I'll find someone who's not going cheap in the sales
A nice little housewife who'll give me the steady life
And not keep going off the rails"
I get the impression that he met his lover (who dressed in drag) at a gay bar. He can't admit to himself that he is gay, and that is why he is lashing out so vengefully at his partner, calling him cheap and overly dramatic. In the last lines of this verse he claims that he is going to find "a nice little housewife" because he wants a life that people will perceive as normal more than he wants to be true to himself.
"Take a look in my face for the last time
I never knew you, you never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye"
The author is renouncing any connection to the love which he sees as forbidden. It's not enough to end the relationship, he wants to hurt his partner, he wants to erase any trace of the feelings that he can't come to grips with. It's sad really...
Just my interpretation, but take into account that Marc Almond, the lead singer of Soft Cell is gay.
So, I actually think this song is about a man who has fallen in love with another man.
"Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain" I've seen a lot of Pink Flamingo's in my day, but never one that wasn't a gay bar...
"And I'm going to make sure it doesn't happen again You and I had to be the standing joke of the year"
He could be saying that he's terrified of what people think of him and he doesn't want to admit that he's gay.
"Under the deep red lights I can see the makeup sliding down Well hey little girl you will always make up So take off that unbecoming frown As for me, well, I'll find someone who's not going cheap in the sales A nice little housewife who'll give me the steady life And not keep going off the rails"
I get the impression that he met his lover (who dressed in drag) at a gay bar. He can't admit to himself that he is gay, and that is why he is lashing out so vengefully at his partner, calling him cheap and overly dramatic. In the last lines of this verse he claims that he is going to find "a nice little housewife" because he wants a life that people will perceive as normal more than he wants to be true to himself.
"Take a look in my face for the last time I never knew you, you never knew me Say hello, goodbye Say hello and wave goodbye"
The author is renouncing any connection to the love which he sees as forbidden. It's not enough to end the relationship, he wants to hurt his partner, he wants to erase any trace of the feelings that he can't come to grips with. It's sad really...
Just my interpretation, but take into account that Marc Almond, the lead singer of Soft Cell is gay.
@entropy4139 i think you are gay.
@entropy4139 i think you are gay.