Kitchens of Distinction was a pretty cool late 80’s/early 90’s band, and this was one of their better songs, a melancholy tune (seemingly) about gay bashing and trying to find sanctuary. I love the vocals and the way it all sounds together.
And of course, the lyrics:
Sharpen your stunted tusks in this city night.
Yesterday a wide-eyed stabbing
Tonight a crowbar fight a desperate fight.
Sleeping alone and drugged frightened fat and wet
I swear I’m chasing sanity
Lost easy laughter and forgetting.
I’m going south
To feed the animals
I’m going south
Become elephantine.
Elephant in drought-struck shock is trumpeting her grief.
Stays with her dying baby trunk stroking dry and pursued
She dies too.
How can I justify wailing at these walls?
Every great nation ends up deserving war.
