Talk:Like a Motorway

Faulty Interpretation!

Without any reference, the article states that the song is about a woman who kills her lover. Unless someone can provide a reference where the artists themselves allude to this, I think it's safe to assume this is merely what the individual writing that part of the article mistakenly thought. This speculation that the song is about a homicide isn't just unreferenced, it doesn't even make sense when one considers other lyrics in the song. For example, "in her right hand she grasps a letter. I know this means that he has gone." If the woman killed him, what is this letter? And why does it indicate to the narrator that the man is "gone"? It is much more likely that the man killed himself and the letter the woman is holding is his suicide note. This is also why the woman says that she "wishes" he had "just left" her because he'd still "be alive." If she had killed him, why would she wish this? It makes no sense. However, if he committed suicide, it makes perfect sense. Since I don't have any reference for the suicide interpretation, I won't add it to the article, but I am going to go ahead and remove the invalid homicide interpretation that is up right now. Please keep your personal interpretations of songs out of wikipedia articles! TragiCore (talk) 00:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

More Faulty Interpretation!

I don't see any reason to say that the title refers to Kraftwerk's Autobahn. A reason for the title is given in the third verse already. More can be learnt from the comparison with "Silver Dagger". In that song, the singer's mother says she will kill a man if he loves her daughter, because her daughter's father had a chain of maids he'd loved and wronged five miles long. I think personal interpretations should be taken out of this article, but a description of the two songs would allow readers to draw their own conclusions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.38.25 (talk) 22:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)