I was wrong

Sperling · Road Kill Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

I've been wreaking havoc on my brain trying to interpret this but can't come up with something that I will keep agreeing to for more than a few hours.

Any helpful insight will be much appreciated

Dark · Post #2 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject:

Perhaps he was saying that he was wrong.

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Obviousman · Post #4 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

http://1959.tsom.org ?

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Badlander · Post #6 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

Welcome to HL.
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Petseri · Overbomber Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 4576

This may be tainted from personal experience, but I took it to mean that he is not having any more to do with his girl-friend f**king around with someone else.

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eastmidswhizzkid · Post #9 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:33 am Post subject:

i would say that petseri and doctor e have got it in a nutshell. one of von's less obscure lyrics i've always thought.
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spartacus mills · Post #10 Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

itnAklipse · Post #11 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:48 am Post subject:

But if your finale conclusion alleges that the song ultimately regards a relationship, you're wrong...but please don't ask me what it's about, i'm far too subjective to offer an explanation that would satisfy anyone else but myself.
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nick the stripper · Post #12 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

eastmidswhizzkid · Post #13 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

i'm never wrong.

even when i'm incorrect. Twisted Evil

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Being645 · Post #14 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject:

I've got the clue to this one now ... Mr. Green

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It's Von's final address towards Wayne .... Laughing

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stufarq · Post #15 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject:

Are you gonna post this for every song?
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LyanvisAberrant · Post #17 Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:23 am Post subject:

Bump.
I'm very interested in the lines in a bar that's always closing... In a world where people shout. I don't wanna talk this over, I don't wanna talk this out.
thanks in advance!
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Pista · Post #18 Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:44 pm Post subject:

I think eastmidlandswhizzkid is right when he says it's not the most obscure of Our fearless leader!

's songs.

That line sort of suggests that the doors are closing & he's not getting any more to drink (or anything else) & he just wants to be left in peace.

Whereas, prior to that, he appears to be wracked with guilt (or pain) that just won't stop bugging him, hence all the bitter jibes.
So imagine being betrayed by someone close & the reaction to it.
Anger, bitterness & then into realisation that continuing in that vein is only making it last longer & you need to drop all the talk & BS & get on with life.

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LyanvisAberrant · Post #19 Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:50 pm Post subject:

Oooh fancy that, Thanks!
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Joy · Post #20 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:39 am Post subject:

It was clearly about his ex-girlfriend’s new love – Von couldn’t bear him.
I have read it recently in a 1990 interview. I will quote it precisely in the evening.
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Joy · Post #21 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:58 pm Post subject:

New Musical Express - 15 December, 1990

'Vision Thing is a rock reckord, isn't it?
Eldritch smiles slowly. "Yeah", he mutters ironically. "You're supposed to start off by telling us how great it is! Ego massage...
It's a very arrogant record. I like the last song."
The last song is 'I Was Wrong'. It is the nastiest goodbye song in pop history, a complete refusal to be pleasant to you ex's new geezer. "Yes. I can love my fellow man" rumbles Eldritch. "But I'll be damned if I'll love yours." Very sensitive.
"It's sensitive in the way Himmler was sensitive" counters Eldritch.

"I used to have and maybe still do - although totally unfairly - a reputation as a sensitive and very morose sort of person. Most people's idea of sensitive is very maudlin. This is not a maudlin record."
Indeed it ain't. The songs are of two kinds, by and large. There are thoughtful ones about how crap Andrew's girlfriend is - which are brilliant pouting sarcasm and anger - and there are crazee rock ones which are huge lists of American things."
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stufarq · Post #23 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:32 pm Post subject:

Joy · Post #24 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:36 am Post subject:

It is the journalist indeed saying this opinion but I think an agreement from Von was necessary before the release. But who knows maybe 25 years ago the journalist could write something very different from what had been said in reality.
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million voices · Post #25 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:34 am Post subject:

Isn't "The bar that's always closing" etc line mean that him and the ex always end up shouting at each other?
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