For me, the "still be on my feet" line has always expressed a similar thought to "other women cloy the appetites they feed: but she makes hungry where most she satisfies" from Antony & Cleopatra.
The fact that there's a Shakespeare quote at the beginning of the song is either a happy co-incidence or further reinforcement.
The idea that she isn't intoxicated by him any more is so utterly belied by the rest of the song that I find it hard to see how anyone could read those lines that way. It's the song of someone who's still deeply in love despite knowing the relationship is over.
And in the "lonely painter" verse she's saying that she's the one who's afraid to live and he's the one that isn't, I'm sure.
For me, the "still be on my feet" line has always expressed a similar thought to "other women cloy the appetites they feed: but she makes hungry where most she satisfies" from Antony & Cleopatra.
The fact that there's a Shakespeare quote at the beginning of the song is either a happy co-incidence or further reinforcement.
The idea that she isn't intoxicated by him any more is so utterly belied by the rest of the song that I find it hard to see how anyone could read those lines that way. It's the song of someone who's still deeply in love despite knowing the relationship is over.
And in the "lonely painter" verse she's saying that she's the one who's afraid to live and he's the one that isn't, I'm sure.