Any music expert aqui?

[perth]

in context...

This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
You take the staircase to the first floor
Turn the key and slowly unlock the door
As a man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America

when i think fat cat politician, i picture that big blustery kind. the kind with the fat red face from all the fund raising dinners and lack of exercise. for what its worth, i dont think the implication is complimentary. especially when he starts throwing 100 bills around like he has an endless supply. i think the implication is that the money is being spent on those fighter planes. i think its referring more to a group of people than any one person.

as far as the line "as a man breathes into a saxophone", that seems to be filler to me. the important line is "And through the walls you hear the city groan". the city groaning from the weight of the bombing by the aforementioned fighter planes.

whatever. half-baked analysis i know. but thats all i got. it probably requires a more extensive knowledge of the civil war in el salvador.

y'know, the red face may be a face covered in blood. but i doubt it based on the proceeding lines.

~james