What's Valentine really about anyway?

[torethatbridgeout]

I get that it's about love or desire or a crush or Valentine's Day, and there's a few druggy sounding lines, but although I love the song I always feel like I'm not getting it. Only the last line, where if tonight belongs to you, tomorrow's mine ... there he sounds his vindictive old self, and I at least get that emotion, but I don't get how it hangs with the rest.

Someone help me out here, or shoot me before I post on the lyrics page again.

[kgp]

Is this some kind of trick question where the answer is so obvious only a first rate idiot would post? Am I now that idiot? (don't answer that).

Valiums have those little punched out "V's" in the center that look like little hearts, sort of. They could be valentines to a pill head.

TTBO, can you definitively tell me what a rat's brain is?

[torethatbridgeout]

thanks killer green peas,

that's a reasonable explanation, none too obvious to me, but then I didn't get the "stars are starting to shoot" line either until a heroin thread sometime back.

[kgp]

My god-given talent for uncovering even the most veiled drug references in song. Actually, I don't know. I saw "Valentine" listed in a book called "Pills A-Go-Go" with other "drug songs". I didn't make that connection until then.

[landshark]

Thanks, kgp. 17 years of mystery cleared up. And thanks ttbo for bringing it up.

I can't remember which antidepressant it is, maybe wellbutrin, but it has this writing on it that looks like a one-eyed smily face.