Has anyone considered that the Babylon sisters (San Francisco: Babylon by the Bay) are two girls, ladies. I read an interesting article in the Guardian today about a company called 'Quirky Campers'. Located in England, they rent out camper vans people have remodeled. Drive west on Sunset to the sea Turn that jungle music down Just until we're out of town This is no one night stand It's a real occassion Close your eyes and you'll be there It's everything they say The end of a perfect day Distant lights from across the bay Babylon sisters shake it Babylon sisters shake it So fine so young Tell me I'm the only one Here come those Santa Ana winds again We'll jog with show folk on the sand Drink kirschwasser from a shell San Francisco Show and Tell Well I should know by now that it's just a spasm Like a Sunday in T.J. That it's cheap but it's not free That I'm not what I used to be And that love's not a game for three [chorus] [solo] My friends say no don't go for that cotton candy Son you're playing with fire The kid will live and learn As he watches his bridges burn From the point of no return [chorus]. General CommentBabylon Sisters is a Biblical reference to a fallen people, fallen women, fallen and degenerate lifestlyles, he realizes he is getting to old for this shallow experiences. He is with his young girl on the Santa Ana Freeway on his way to a threeway sexual encounter. ('Its cheap but its not free.Love is not a game for three, San Fransico Show and Tell is another sex rerefence) Cotton candy = nose candy (cocaine and or young girl reference).' So Fine So Young Tell me I'm the only One' a delusional refrence about relationships with prostitutes.These women are so young he no longer has much in common with them ('Turn that jungle music down'). Babylon Sister Shake It. Its no secret about indulgent rock lifesytles, he has talked about his indulgent destructive behavior before (In Kid Charlamagne, also in Time Out Of Mind phrase 'Tonight When I Chase The Dragon,are all drug refernces) he has mentioned his prefrence for fast women (prostitutes) in his songs before. There is also some sadness, remorse, guilt? As he realizes he is geting to old for this shallow experiences.but it has never stopped him before as in the Song Do It Again that is about addictions compulsions and repeating his mistakes again and again. So Babylon Sister Shake It.' You got to shake it baby you got to shake it baby you got to shake it'.. General CommentMy take is that the protagonist is an older guy, he knows he should know better but is involved with a younger woman(or women)he may have met somewhere while on vacation. Despite the fact that these women have other lives and relationships and that his friends have told him he is being foolish, that these women are just after his cash, etc he just can't resist because they make him feel young again for a little while. So he travels, parties, spends too much money but in the end it all just brings home the fact that these women don't care about him, he is past his prime and just being used.
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