So, Interpretations? What's it about? What does it say? A guy from the UK sits in LA now having a healthy breakfast. So what?
LE
We know that Mark often hides a very personal deeper meaning behind a song's obivous superficial story told in the foreground.
For instance Broken Bones is not just another (third) song about boxing or Sonny Liston but about his personal attitude/approach at getting older).
Sometimes it can take years to get to that real meaning, sometimes we don't get there at all.
So patience is required.
It for sure is not just a simple song about a guy leaving for the sunshine state to make his way.
Thank you.
At the moment I still work out the story im the foreground. So it is HIS store... (he grinds a coffee by HIMSELF) and the LA Times lying around. Right?
The Sax part could literally be just putting on the music System when opened in the morning.
And the hunter's gleam in his eye shows that he is here at this place because he had the WILL of exactly having this.
Does Cockney Rebel has any other meaning than the band's name? As he listens to the rhythm of A
cockney rebel..
LE
One significance/implication to dig into is the cockney rebel and the Camden shuffle.
Is there a conncection with the song's rythm?
Is there maybe even a slight connection to the glam-rock band Steve Harley & the Cockney Rebel of the 70s.
If so is there a connection to the person in the song (if it is RD) or his attitude in life?
And above all what interests or fasciantes MK in this, what can he personally relate to on a deeper level than just being a man of those times or of humble origins himself.
It is of course very early in the process of deciphering the track and one certainly can be totally wrong with these first approaches.
So much more work is to be done if Mark doesn't solve the puzzle in one of the upcoming interviews.
