I believe this song to be about a prostitute, On a recording of live at Massy Hall neil says that the song is about the beaches of spain
Multiple beaches in spain in that time period contained many prostitutes
Is this place
at your command
May Refer to the domain in which a hooker would claim to be her area.
Can I stay here
for a while
Can I see your
sweet sweet smile
This phrase would be the man asking to be the next customer, possibly not the first time
Old enough now
to change your name
Would mean that she is old enough to change her name, as in a stripper name, or become married and change her last name
When so many love you
is it the same?
Could state that after selling her self to many men, is making love still the same and as special as it is intended to be
It's the woman in you
that makes you want
to play this game.
Referring to sexual hormones or urges on the shallow side, however more deeply that she may have been struggling for money and her womany urge to be independent and find away to survive on her own forced her into the "game"
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band
begun to rust
I feel this refers to her beauty and person deserves better than to be in the dust of her profession, and that her gig has began to fall apart because shes getting older and may not be as wanted as the younger competition
After all
the sin we've had
I was hopin' that
we'd turn back
Maybe the man has started to fall for her and he wants to settle down and provide for her, but the woman in her wont let her so she refuses
Hello woman of my dreams
This is not
the way it seems
Purple words
on a grey background
To be a woman
and to be turned down
finally she has reached an age where she is no longer at interest anymore, unwanted. everything looks fine on the surface but she now suffers more than ever. purple words get lost in the echo of the ordinary and boring grey background and she was special, but now she is turned down, the worst of all
I think you hit it right on the head that's just what this song is saying........
Its plain as white bread !!!!!!You have said it the best ,and purple words on a grey background = to grow old and grey and be bruised by words..
this is one of those top ten songs you can not live with out if you hear one you cant for get it thank you for putting down so nice...
I think you hit it right on the head that's just what this song is saying........
Its plain as white bread !!!!!!You have said it the best ,and purple words on a grey background = to grow old and grey and be bruised by words..
this is one of those top ten songs you can not live with out if you hear one you cant for get it thank you for putting down so nice...
Excellent analogy. These were very close to my own thoughts on the song many years ago. I often felt that there was a certain poetic license taken from a play called "The Rover or The Banish 'd Cavaliers,." One can stretch it even further and possibly suggest that some tenets may be extracted form the story of Hosea When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” Something about the male...
Excellent analogy. These were very close to my own thoughts on the song many years ago. I often felt that there was a certain poetic license taken from a play called "The Rover or The Banish 'd Cavaliers,." One can stretch it even further and possibly suggest that some tenets may be extracted form the story of Hosea When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” Something about the male ego's "White Knight' syndrome where he feels that he can rescue a woman form a dire predicament and then finally accepting that his quixotic quandary is a fools errand. Anyway, well done.
I believe this song to be about a prostitute, On a recording of live at Massy Hall neil says that the song is about the beaches of spain Multiple beaches in spain in that time period contained many prostitutes
Is this place at your command May Refer to the domain in which a hooker would claim to be her area.
Can I stay here for a while Can I see your sweet sweet smile This phrase would be the man asking to be the next customer, possibly not the first time
Old enough now to change your name Would mean that she is old enough to change her name, as in a stripper name, or become married and change her last name
When so many love you is it the same? Could state that after selling her self to many men, is making love still the same and as special as it is intended to be
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game. Referring to sexual hormones or urges on the shallow side, however more deeply that she may have been struggling for money and her womany urge to be independent and find away to survive on her own forced her into the "game"
Hello ruby in the dust Has your band begun to rust I feel this refers to her beauty and person deserves better than to be in the dust of her profession, and that her gig has began to fall apart because shes getting older and may not be as wanted as the younger competition
After all the sin we've had I was hopin' that we'd turn back Maybe the man has started to fall for her and he wants to settle down and provide for her, but the woman in her wont let her so she refuses
Hello woman of my dreams This is not the way it seems Purple words on a grey background To be a woman and to be turned down
finally she has reached an age where she is no longer at interest anymore, unwanted. everything looks fine on the surface but she now suffers more than ever. purple words get lost in the echo of the ordinary and boring grey background and she was special, but now she is turned down, the worst of all
I think you hit it right on the head that's just what this song is saying........ Its plain as white bread !!!!!!You have said it the best ,and purple words on a grey background = to grow old and grey and be bruised by words.. this is one of those top ten songs you can not live with out if you hear one you cant for get it thank you for putting down so nice...
I think you hit it right on the head that's just what this song is saying........ Its plain as white bread !!!!!!You have said it the best ,and purple words on a grey background = to grow old and grey and be bruised by words.. this is one of those top ten songs you can not live with out if you hear one you cant for get it thank you for putting down so nice...
Excellent analogy. These were very close to my own thoughts on the song many years ago. I often felt that there was a certain poetic license taken from a play called "The Rover or The Banish 'd Cavaliers,." One can stretch it even further and possibly suggest that some tenets may be extracted form the story of Hosea When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” Something about the male...
Excellent analogy. These were very close to my own thoughts on the song many years ago. I often felt that there was a certain poetic license taken from a play called "The Rover or The Banish 'd Cavaliers,." One can stretch it even further and possibly suggest that some tenets may be extracted form the story of Hosea When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” Something about the male ego's "White Knight' syndrome where he feels that he can rescue a woman form a dire predicament and then finally accepting that his quixotic quandary is a fools errand. Anyway, well done.
@hix2872 IDK exactly why but CitS makes me think of Linda Ronstadt.
@hix2872 IDK exactly why but CitS makes me think of Linda Ronstadt.