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I think the lyrics aren't too bad. Especially for such a poppy song.

You can't start a fire without a spark - obviously his creative side, he is feeling lost like he can't do his job well. Which is the only thing he has ever wanted to be good at.

This Gun's for hire - And it's not even about himself anymore. He's got all these records execs nagging him for a hit record and that pesky Landau begging him for another Hungry Heart.

Dancing in the Dark - just getting on with it, doing his job by fumbling around if that's what it takes Dancing in the Dark. no light, no spark of imagination just rubbish, rubbish pop music.
Hence Dancing in the Dark and Cover Me!
The sweetest songs don't last too long on Broken radios.
Originally Posted By: born2run
Dancing in the Dark - just getting on with it, doing his job by fumbling around if that's what it takes Dancing in the Dark. no light, no spark of imagination just rubbish, rubbish pop music.
Hence Dancing in the Dark and Cover Me!


I doubt it.
"In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us."
Originally Posted By: petrus99
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
even if we're just dancing in the dark


Seriously, what's the meaning of: This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark?


Indeed, this is a deep and introspective question that has confounded the leading theorists into now a third decade. If I may draw upon the work of Martin Uber, who postulated the essence of a holistic, interpersonal relationship as an existential experience without measurable form or structure, it is with Uber's framework that one can induce the meaning of the lyrics.

"You can't start a fire without a spark."

Translated....I just boffed six Swedish, Finnish, and German women in my hotel room over the past three days, and not one of them would I care to boff a second time, especially because I know that before me, they boffed all those European men who gross me out with the way they come to my shows in droves.

"This gun's for hire, even if we're just dancing in the dark."

Translated....since I sold out my soul to being a cheezy rock-and-roll stadium megastar with a synthesizer-heavy sound, no matter how many women have their life-defining moment giving my Nils a good mouthwash, I'm an empty loser who exists now only to write music for crappy MTV vids.

~

Now, if you can grasp the complexity of that interpretation, then you are probably evolving to a scholarly level to begin postulating about the use of the term "rain" to catalyze lyrical coherence in Downbound Train.
Originally Posted By: SwitchbladeLover
First, there's no way that you'll get me to listen KISS, and second, "this penis is for hire" is the most idiotic interpretation yet.

Dancing in the Dark is sex.

Gun for hire is not exactly penis for hire.
A gun slinger (expert at handling a gun) is a gun for hire.
So all men are guns for hire.

Actually I kind of like the the I'm selling out angle.
Kind of like REM's Green.
I get up in the evening, and I aint got nothing to say
I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way
I aint nothing but tired, man Im just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help

You cant start a fire, you cant start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire even if were just dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer, radios on and Im moving round the place
I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face
Man I aint getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this
Theres something happening somewhere baby I just know that there is

You cant start a fire...

You sit around getting older theres a joke here somewhere and its on me
Ill shake this world off my shoulders come baby this laughs on me

Stay on the streets of this town and theyll be carving you up alright
They say you got to stay hungry hey baby Im just about starving tonight
Im dying for some action Im sick of sitting round here trying to write
This book
I need a love reaction come on now baby give me just one look

You cant start a fire..

Bruce was ready to embrace super-stardom and as soon as he got it...he rejected it.
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