it's about loneliness and just having that human heat makes it all better even if it doesn't mean anything. even if she calls you by someone else's name.
That's what makes the song so heartbreaking though, it doesn't help. He keeps saying "I need company, I need human heat" and he's still saying it by the end of the song; he never finds it. On top of that, he realizes that she is just like him and that she's looking for the same thing. "The Twist" is that even though they're having sex, that sex doesn't generate the kind of heat either of them are looking for, they're more or less just ships passing in the night. This is consistent with "Keep Yourself Warm" when he says "it...
That's what makes the song so heartbreaking though, it doesn't help. He keeps saying "I need company, I need human heat" and he's still saying it by the end of the song; he never finds it. On top of that, he realizes that she is just like him and that she's looking for the same thing. "The Twist" is that even though they're having sex, that sex doesn't generate the kind of heat either of them are looking for, they're more or less just ships passing in the night. This is consistent with "Keep Yourself Warm" when he says "it takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm".
it's about loneliness and just having that human heat makes it all better even if it doesn't mean anything. even if she calls you by someone else's name.
That's what makes the song so heartbreaking though, it doesn't help. He keeps saying "I need company, I need human heat" and he's still saying it by the end of the song; he never finds it. On top of that, he realizes that she is just like him and that she's looking for the same thing. "The Twist" is that even though they're having sex, that sex doesn't generate the kind of heat either of them are looking for, they're more or less just ships passing in the night. This is consistent with "Keep Yourself Warm" when he says "it...
That's what makes the song so heartbreaking though, it doesn't help. He keeps saying "I need company, I need human heat" and he's still saying it by the end of the song; he never finds it. On top of that, he realizes that she is just like him and that she's looking for the same thing. "The Twist" is that even though they're having sex, that sex doesn't generate the kind of heat either of them are looking for, they're more or less just ships passing in the night. This is consistent with "Keep Yourself Warm" when he says "it takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm".