It's a great song (the Air Supply version), but what does it mean? I always used to take for granted that the singer was scolding the woman for having sex without love. But he praises her highly in the lyrics.
But now I wonder if he's praising her for loving him despite his not deserving it. But he praises himself too, so it seems like he does deserve it.
What's your interpretation? Is "making love out of nothing at all" a scold or a thanks?
I'll have to listen to it again and really study the lyrics to comment on that, but I always enjoyed the Instrumental use of the song in the movie A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. Jim Steinman I guess scored that movie and used the Making Love Song and also "Turn Around Bright Eyes" as another instrumental part of the score. Love those versions heard in the film.
Steinman is a great songwriter* and his favorite tools of the trade are irony and double meanings. It's exactly that which makes analysis of his lyrics such a rabbit-hole. There are at least a half-dozen ways to interpret that song, and they would all be correct.
(* I fully acknowledge that he's written his share of stinkers, too.)
Steinman is a great songwriter* and his favorite tools of the trade are irony and double meanings. It's exactly that which makes analysis of his lyrics such a rabbit-hole. There are at least a half-dozen ways to interpret that song, and they would all be correct.
Well that makes sense. The song has no fixed, intended meaning.
Well that makes sense. The song has no fixed, intended meaning.
It's funny, ever since you started this thread I listened to the song a half dozen times, reading along each time. I just can't pin it down to any one single meaning. At least I know it's not just me!
It's also funny how when you just read the words to any Jim Steinman song without the actual song playing, they read like regular, hypersexed juvenalia. But then you put the song on and, POW, it all comes together.
