Originally Posted by: earthman buckThat's very interesting. I never thought of it that way, but I can certainly see how you got that.

The way I see it (after having written it) is that it's about a guy who falls in love with a hooker. He's kind of a bland, depressed guy, and he doesn't want her so much for sex as for companionship. She teaches him to enjoy life more, and he does. Maybe. I don't know, when I wrote the ending, I kind of had it in my head as a negative thing. Like, I imagined him complaining to her about how she "screwed up" his life (by making him see things in a more positive light), and her smiling as she listened. Not because she's malicious or anything, just because, well, that's how she is.

The chorus implies that he's now holding tight to the positive outlook she gave him, but it does him no good, as he's in love with a prostitute, and it can never be.

The only catch is that you almost have to ignore the first line of the song. It makes sense to me, in the prostitute context, but I can't for the life of me explain why.

But where is she revealed as a prostitute?