I've always thought the lyrics were a bit off--the "jerkoffs" feels forced and "tablets of love/kid glove"is an awkward rhyme.
Beyond that, it seems to be about a young starlet who's the talk of Hollywood searching for love in the town of facades, with "those shoes" probably being some sort of designer shoes, as well as a symbol for her fame. She's young and naive ("you're so smooth and the world's so rough"), and life isn't like what it was before fame ("oh no, you can't do that/once you started wearing those shoes"). She's trying to find love ("You just want someone to talk to"), but plenty of guys are willing to take advantage of her loneliness and naivete ("they just want to get their hands on you"; I assume "tablets of love" are drugs to get her to loosen up).
To me, it always sounded like the talkbox was saying "Butt out, butt out."
Maybe I need to take a more critical listen to the song, but "they just want to get their hands on you" to me was more of a "we need a sex symbol to sell" mentality that Henley attributed to the industry
Maybe I need to take a more critical listen to the song, but "they just want to get their hands on you" to me was more of a "we need a sex symbol to sell" mentality that Henley attributed to the industry
I've always thought the lyrics were a bit off--the "jerkoffs" feels forced and "tablets of love/kid glove"is an awkward rhyme.
Beyond that, it seems to be about a young starlet who's the talk of Hollywood searching for love in the town of facades, with "those shoes" probably being some sort of designer shoes, as well as a symbol for her fame. She's young and naive ("you're so smooth and the world's so rough"), and life isn't like what it was before fame ("oh no, you can't do that/once you started wearing those shoes"). She's trying to find love ("You just want someone to talk to"), but plenty of guys are willing to take advantage of her loneliness and naivete ("they just want to get their hands on you"; I assume "tablets of love" are drugs to get her to loosen up).
To me, it always sounded like the talkbox was saying "Butt out, butt out."
Maybe I need to take a more critical listen to the song, but "they just want to get their hands on you" to me was more of a "we need a sex symbol to sell" mentality that Henley attributed to the industry
Maybe I need to take a more critical listen to the song, but "they just want to get their hands on you" to me was more of a "we need a sex symbol to sell" mentality that Henley attributed to the industry
But, yeah, it does sound like the synth vocals say "butt out"
But, yeah, it does sound like the synth vocals say "butt out"