BLUE RODEO
Don't tell me I'm wrong Cause I've been watching every move that you make Hearts you steal with your make-up and heels Trouble for the men that you take
Every time you walk in the room I couldn't even be sure of a smile You were never the same way twice But I'm falling in love Night after night - oh it's crazy
So many people who said Girl you've got nothing but time Oh you are a shining star Don't you worry about what you're leaving behind
Oh you got to try try try Don't you know you've got to try try try Oh baby you try
Every time you walk in the room I couldn't even be sure of a smile You were never the same way twice I'm falling in love Night after night - oh it's crazy
I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Sunset Boulevard but at the beginning of this movie William Holden is floating dead in a pool and behind him all these flashes are going off of the police and news photographers and then the voice of this guy who's floating in this pool comes over and starts telling us about this crazy arrangement he's been having with Gloria Swanson, some chauffeur named Von Stroheim and a Chimpanzee in a white satin coffin but what he's really talking about is how we're continually being confronted with the possibility of our own corruption and how if you're not careful you can be swallowed up whole by your own ambitions. Now in his own life, William was a bit of a drinker and one night sitting at home after having a couple too many, he falls down and hits his head on a coffee table... no big deal... so he goes to the bathroom, gets a towel, puts it to his head and stumbles off to bed but he never woke up... he was so loaded that he ends up bleeding to death, lying there in a pool of his own blood... HMPH... this song is about that sort of feeling... that burnout kinda feeling of when a bad thing has been going on for too long and an act of sympathy makes as much sense as putting a towel to your head.