Cheap Perfume and Candlelight
"It's so easy now to swing/When the swing set feels just right.."
So you think you're quite a man
You're taking care of all her needs
Sometimes it's even twice a weekend
At least it's every time you need
Yeah, it's so easy now to swing
When the swing set feels just right
Like a fifty dollar room
Cheap perfume and candlelight
'Cause once you thought the thrill as gone
Your passion seemed to fade and die
You left a woman back at home
Alone and so unsatisfied
You hit the street to feel the thrill
Of the hunter in the night
Your prey was out there dressed to kill
In cheap perfume and candlelight
Cheap perfume and candlelight
The situation makes the man
If you can't make it back at home
You make it any way you can
And you can, it's so nice
That now you can
Maybe you'll never stop to think
Just for the true test did it be
Love your ever loving manhood of your masculinity
If you could satisfy the woman
Right back at home there every night
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Comments
Not very deep as narratives go. A neighbor who worked as a disc jockey in a radio station told me once that sometimes songs were just written to fill time or gamble for a hit single on an album. Like Warrant's "Cherry Pie." Jani Lane, the composer, remarked that the song was never the focus of the album. He explained it better here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1xpknCHCQ
Posted by KDP on 07/27/18 at 12:57 PM
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity | Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages | Music | Sexuality | 1970s