Lyrical Content
The album lyrics were all written by Andrew Eldritch, who said his „writing owes more to collage editing in film“. Their content with various references to drugs and separation mirror Eldritch's condition at the time: „I was so shot when I wrote the lyrics on the album that there's no distancing of persona at all.“
Gary Marx: „When we were making ‘First And Last And Always’ Andrew was effectively splitting with his long-term girlfriend and I was close to leaving the band. The two things led to a number of references in the lyrics which seemed to cover his farewells to us both.“
Eldritch later confirmed that the lyrics of "Walk Away" were directed to Gary Marx: „I thought one of them in particular might have found it a bit relevant.“ Gary Marx: „‘Walk Away’ may or may not be about me, I don’t care because I don’t particularly like the song – the one lyric which always bugs me is the line from ‘Some Kind of Stranger’ which says ‘careful lingers undecided at the door’, which I definitely took as a shot at me.“
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