i've never seen citizen cane, so i just took this song as an attack at marriage. "you said the union forever....but that was untrue, girl" referring to matrimony and the whole 'until death do us part' thing. "it can't be love for there is no true love" would just be the perception of someone who had just been divorced unwillingly. The spoken word part "There is a man....I bet you five he's not alive if you don't know his name," seems to be used in a satirical way. In the movie, they say this in reference to Kane, but in the song, Jack seems to imply that there is no person that is as great as the man described, despite all the women who marry a man expecting him to be. "Well I'm sorry but I'm not interested.....real estate," could refer to Jack's life style of being a musician and how even though it may not be the most stable profession, it's still what he loves.
Of course, this is just how I perceive the song. It may very well be all about Citizen Kane :)
i've never seen citizen cane, so i just took this song as an attack at marriage. "you said the union forever....but that was untrue, girl" referring to matrimony and the whole 'until death do us part' thing. "it can't be love for there is no true love" would just be the perception of someone who had just been divorced unwillingly. The spoken word part "There is a man....I bet you five he's not alive if you don't know his name," seems to be used in a satirical way. In the movie, they say this in reference to Kane, but in the song, Jack seems to imply that there is no person that is as great as the man described, despite all the women who marry a man expecting him to be. "Well I'm sorry but I'm not interested.....real estate," could refer to Jack's life style of being a musician and how even though it may not be the most stable profession, it's still what he loves.
Of course, this is just how I perceive the song. It may very well be all about Citizen Kane :)