I agree with Michaelwood\nI think the main inspiration for this song were lonely heart adverts In a newspaper and the question the song asks is were the adverts successful did the person looking for love end up happily married “Kiss your name bye-bye” referencing the tradition of woman taking their husbands surname after marriage or did they end up with a person they despise in a toxic marriage?\n\nI’m old enough to remember the days before Tinder and the internet when people had to pay per word to advertise in a local paper’s “Lonely Hearts” column when they were trying to find love “Only a pound a word and you’re talking to the town”. Verse two quotes typical lines that might have been found in these adverts “Liverpudlian lady seeks sophisticated male”, “Romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise”, also the line “But how do you coin a phrase though that will set your soul apart?” Asks how do you come up with something original and witty to set your advert apart from everyone else and attract interest. Did they quote from adverts they had read?\n\nWhen we come to the chorus I think it’s a reference to a Mills and Boom version of love “Or have I read too much fiction?” Summertime is always a season associated with love. Long sunny days, people out and about socialising, walking in the park hand and hand, flowers and plants growing as opposed to winter a dark and depressing season.\n\nStatic and Silence is my favourite The Sunday’s album. A classic compared to previous albums where if they were painters they would have been painting in black and white as opposed to this album were they used all the colours of the rainbow.
I agree with Michaelwood\nI think the main inspiration for this song were lonely heart adverts In a newspaper and the question the song asks is were the adverts successful did the person looking for love end up happily married “Kiss your name bye-bye” referencing the tradition of woman taking their husbands surname after marriage or did they end up with a person they despise in a toxic marriage?\n\nI’m old enough to remember the days before Tinder and the internet when people had to pay per word to advertise in a local paper’s “Lonely Hearts” column when they were trying to find love “Only a pound a word and you’re talking to the town”. Verse two quotes typical lines that might have been found in these adverts “Liverpudlian lady seeks sophisticated male”, “Romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise”, also the line “But how do you coin a phrase though that will set your soul apart?” Asks how do you come up with something original and witty to set your advert apart from everyone else and attract interest. Did they quote from adverts they had read?\n\nWhen we come to the chorus I think it’s a reference to a Mills and Boom version of love “Or have I read too much fiction?” Summertime is always a season associated with love. Long sunny days, people out and about socialising, walking in the park hand and hand, flowers and plants growing as opposed to winter a dark and depressing season.\n\nStatic and Silence is my favourite The Sunday’s album. A classic compared to previous albums where if they were painters they would have been painting in black and white as opposed to this album were they used all the colours of the rainbow.