The "Something Exquisite" appreciation thread

[DauphineMarie]

You know I just listened to this song the other day, and was thinking something quite similar actually... To me, this song is about taking chances. "If you do not run the race, then you cannot win it ever".

But like you said, there is a dark side, because you cannot get off the train, and if you don't try, then you can't win. So whatever chance you take, be it a relationship, drugs, a new endeavour or what have you, there is the chance that you are on the edge of "Something Exquisite", but also on the edge of something potentially harmful to you. I sense a cautious optimism about this... Like she knows that this thing is beautiful and dangerous, but that she not will be able to stop: "I hear the warning on the wind.. in the dim light of my rooms I sense a strange misgiving".

Personally, the feeling I sense is the feeling you get when the wind picks up right before a great storm, and the black sky is so ominous, like you know what's going to happen but you feel excited, anxious, and fearful.. I don't know. This song is so haunting!

EDIT:: Actually, after just having listened to it, I believe there's a part taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray... I'm not sure where it is or what part, but I will go look, because if I'm correct then Stevie has referenced that book countless of times. Coincidentally, it's one of my very own favourite books, and one that I've read many a time.