iru on Nostr: That’s one a cool party song that when you find out the meanings it’s kinda ...

That’s one a cool party song that when you find out the meanings it’s kinda depressing.

> “At the same time, I was thinking about writing the lyric for the song. I had an appointment with my dentist and I had this rhythm of the bassline in my mind as I was walking along. I created a lot of the verses for Big In Japan on my way to that dentist. I had a couple of friends and we were living under very serious conditions in West Berlin at that time, basically living on the street and some of our friends were drug addicts. They lived in the heroin scene around the Berlin Zoo and I started to write about them. This song is about that drug scene in the late 70s. It’s a fictitious story about a pair of lovers that are trying to get away from the drugs but they never succeed, they imagine themselves in a kind of dreamland where they are drug-free, but they never succeed in getting there and it’s quite a tragic story.”

“I’ll wait here for my man tonight” pretty much gives it away the main character is waiting for a dealer.