Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys: Explain

[Tim]

Does the title of this old Traffic song make any sense to anyone?

I've recently started to appreciate Steve Winwood and particularly like this song, but this line doesn't make any sense to me and I can't find any meaningful explanation online. There are some weird uses in other contexts, like promised tax cuts coming from the 'low spark of high heeled boys', but those didn't illuminate it for me and most of the hits are just direct references to the song. It seems like there's more to it than just "I Am The Walrus" style wordplay.

You can find full lyrics to the song here: http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=GXWf2hH2BYg%3D

[Anonymous]

It means he had a little too much John Barlycorn that night.

[Andrew Mayer]

Found this here (http://www.jimcapaldi.com/ReviewLowSp.htm)


The title (courtesy of a stoned Michael Pollard scribble) and Jim’s lyrics have evoked puzzlement by many fans, of which many have sought some sort of an interpretation. One view is that the song is a sort of Rorschach test – read your own message into the imagery. The emotional quality of "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys" does indeed stand on it’s own, and from that point of view, no other objective ‘meaning’ is necessary – great art requires no absolute definition. On the other hand, by dismissing the lyrics a whole dimension is lost – one that links the song to themes that Traffic had been developing almost from the beginning.


There's more, but "Stoned Scribble" would probably have been my first guess anyway.