Toronto – Suedeview #6. Featuring my favorite song ever – The Asphalt World. This was not a single, but every Suede fan knows this song. It is a nine and a half minute epic. I don’t even know what it’s about. Here are some thoughts I think when listening to this song. Concrete jungle. Cloudy rainy days. Trapped. I guess it’s about feeling lost in the world you live in, trying to find your way out and fucking things up along the way. It’s about that point, you realize there is no way out, so you just accept it. Either that, or its about a drug addict girl who shares her time with two different people. That’s probably a metaphor or something. Not the best way to describe your favorite song in the world, but maaaaan, I just zone out when I listen to this song, it takes me to a place which I cannot describe.
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy
Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city
Like big stars in the back seat like skeletons ever so pretty
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she’s next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or her?
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She’s got a friend, they share mascara I pretend
Sometimes they fly from the covers to the winter of the river
For these silent stars of the cinema
It’s in the blood stream, it’s in the liver
I know a girl, she walks the arse felt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she’s next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or is it her?
With ice in her blood
And a Dove in her head
Well how does she feel when she’s in your bed?
When you’re there in her arms
And there in her legs
Well I’ll be in her head
Cos that’s where I go
And that’s what I do
And that’s how it feels when the sex turns cruel
Yes both of us need her, this is the asphalt world
