Suedehead

My reading of the song is that the “Suedehead” is the emotionally invested person seeking closeness, while the narrator keeps them at a distance, observing, writing, withholding. The “good lay” line feels like something written privately in a diary that the other person eventually discovers. The horror is not just the invasion of privacy, but the narrator suddenly seeing his own reduction of a real person into a phrase like that and feeling exposed and sickened by himself as much as by being discovered.