Ian Astbury, frontman of The Cult: "What's the song about? Sex. Plain and simple, it's about sex. I've had sex and I'm very proud of that fact."
The Cult's Billy Duffy explains how the quasi-psychedelic guitar intro came to be:
"I came across a violin bow, so I began to play the guitar like Jimmy Page using the bow. I did that to make Astbury, who was in the control room, laugh, and I just whacked every pedal I had on the pedal board to make it sound weirder. When I played the middle section of the song—which was kind of a pick thing with all the BOSS pedals on—after I stopped hammering the strings and doing all that, that sound just leaped out. Hold it, hold it, that's amazing, the producer exclaimed. And we made the decision to open the song with that ethereal sound. We wouldn't have gone there if I hadn't stumbled across the violin bow lying around."
"She Sells Sanctuary" was the last song to feature Nigel Preston on drums. Preston was fired from the band shortly after its release and was replaced by Big Country's drummer, Mark Brzezicki.
Lyrics
Oh, the heads that turn
Make my back burn
And those heads that turn
Make my back, make my back burn
The sparkle in your eyes
Keeps me alive
And the sparkle in your eyes
Keeps me alive, keeps me alive
The world
And the world turns around
The world and the world, yeah
The world drags me down
Oh, the heads that turn
Make my back burn
And those heads that turn
Make my back, make my back burn, yeah
Yeah-hey...
The fire in your eyes
Keeps me alive
And the fire in your eyes
Keeps me alive
I'm sure in her you'll find
The sanctuary
I'm sure in her you'll find
The sanctuary
And the world
The world turns around
And the world and the world
The world drags me down
And the world and the world and the world
The world turns around
And the world and the world and the world and the world
The world drags me down
Ah...
Hey-yeah...
And the world
And the world turns around
And the world and the world
Yeah, the world drags me down
And the world
Yeah, the world turns around
And the world and the world
The world drags me down
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
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