Sometime in Spring 1995, an emboldened Mr Webber issued an ultimatum to the group: "If you don't let me join the band full-time, I will take you from this sickness, dinner parties and champagne...and make you so anti-pop, you'll be lucky if Fire even look at you again..."
Love it. I have one that's alway confused me. What does the following line actually mean? 'If you look under the bed, then I can see my house from here'.
As a kid, I assumed it was something poetic or sleazy that only adults would understand. Now I'm an adult I'm still non the wiser. Any thoughts?
"If you look under the bed, then I can see my house from here."
By looking under the bed she's bending over. His 'home' is between her legs.
^ Not my idea. I saw people discussing it on Twitter, so don't blame me.
As for the next line - I've always assumed that when she's "looking under the bed", that also means he can literally see out of the window, across the rooftops to his literal house, which is a reminder he's doing something he very much shouldn't be. So they move over to the wall for some standing-up fun, which has the bonus of not having any such distractions.
It's a grubby little song, isn't it?
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"Yes I saw her in the chip shop / so I said get yer top off"
"Mucky" as Nick described it in Tim's Listening Party playback of Diff Class last year.
That is a really good interpretation of the lyrics - what a bounder! Even more of a cad than our narrator two tracks later in I Spy.
Also, it's very much in direct contrast to the luckless protagonist of The Boss a couple of years earlier. "I was listening through the wall as he laid you down..."
We're making a move, we're making it now? We'll, someone certainly was...
-- Edited by Eamonn on Thursday 25th of March 2021 02:55:48 PM
When I saw Russell at the one public bit of promo he did for his book a few years ago, he expressed fatigue/annoyance at an ageing Jarvis/band still singing about girls underwear etc.
It is an interesting dynamic in a band to think about when most members pay little attention to the lyrics/how the singer acts etc.
