Flaming Wall?
 

So I've been thinking --

What the heck is a "flaming wall", a la "my walls are flamin;"??

Other than the, ahem, potential sexual reference that I guess you could incur, anyone venture to guess what in the world she's talking about?

I've had 'Smile at You' in my head all day (the demo), and it just occurred to me that I have no idea what that means, LOL! And, she repeats it a lot, so it's got to have some significance, I would think...

:)

maybe it was a "Rooms on Fire" reference...or, in context, she was so pissed that her house on on fire with anger

I've thought about this too and I think the same goes with Rooms On Fire...it's all about emotion. The "my walls are flamin" part, to me, describes just how mad/upset she is...she's fuming...hot!

In the context of the lyrics to 'Smile At You'
I have come to know
This world of changing faces
I can't fight the world,
I can't change it
So be true to me
My walls are flamin'
If she's so willing, little one
I won't be staying

I think she's in love, and she is hot for the guy...but he loves someone else. Not sure it is necessarily anger. I think it's much more of a burning desire.

Or walls as in the walls one puts up for self-preservation...not to let people get too close...and then every part of your being - real and metaphorically is so angry that it's ALL a-flamin'! LOL

BTW, I love that song Walls by Tom Petty. I love LB's part on it too! :thumbsup:

when I heard this song for the firs time, my marriage was in the middle of breaking up (b/c he'd been having a 10 yr affair), and these lyrics and those of Everybody Finds Out seemed to take on that kind of meaning for me...the walls of my house were DEF on fire from anger at that time...after some space, I can see it could be from unrequited desire, tho

that's a good take on it as well.

It's the "be true to me" part before "my walls are flaming", that makes me think it's burning desires. She's not pissed...she wants him.

She is pissed. "If shes a willing little one, I won't be staying". I am mad at you, I won't stick around and put up with this. Leave the key and get out. I am flamin angry. I do not hear hot, intense, passionate desire..I hear anger. Especially in the demo.

She's not pissed...she wants him. Her first mistake was smiling at him. That would be attraction. Yeah he loves someone else.

However the song is kind of kooky.

"Go on save yourself
Leave the key here
You love someone else
I shouldn't be here."

Then why leave the key here? It's her place and she shouldn't be there? Whatever, Stevie. lol

maybe she's staying at his place :"leave the key here (and I'll let myself out)"

Wasn't it supposed to refer to a down-there itch? ;)

so you're saying it's a cry for vagisil?:]

No wonder the SOTM on the Mirage Concert video ends like that :laugh:

Wow, I'm sorry sorry to hear that. I can't even imagine what that must have been like for you... :distress:

~Kat