brutal portrait of "White Knuckles" and its companion song, "You'll Never Be a Man", while "Clubland", "Pretty Words" and "White Knuckles" were influenced by the violence encountered on the Get Happy!! tour. "Watch Your Step" and "Fish 'n' Chip Paper" both reference boxing fans, while the latter features a great dictate for the media. Biographer Brian Hinton later commented that the album concerned "sour and rotten doings in different areas". Using his signature wordplay, Costello filled the songs with puns and double entendres. The narrators range from being observers and participants, to inflictors and the inflicted parties. Author James E. Perone summarises the album as an exploration in the betrayal of trust, either on or by the narrators. Side one The album's first two songs, "Clubland" and "Lovers Walk", lack first-person narrators and instead observe different individuals. In "Clubland", Costello targets the people who frequent nightclubs, such as gangsters and drug addicts. Biographer David Gouldstone interprets the nightclubs as a metaphor for Britain in the 1980s and compares the setting to This Year's Model, particularly "Pump It Up". With a jazz-inspired piano line and James Bond-style electric guitar, Perone draws comparisons to Costello's earlier single "Watching the Detectives" (1977). AllMusic's Stewart Mason stated that its "richly detailed" arrangement presaged the "ornate constructions" of Imperial Bedroom (1982) and Costello's other explorations into Baroque art pop. In "Lovers Walk", Costello expresses his suspicions of love as a concept and the narrator's hesitation about falling in love, with Perone singling out the lyric "making promises that they can't keep" as a perfect summary. Like Costello's own "Girls Talk", the title is used as a statement rather than a phrase, warnings listeners to "be on caution where lovers walk". Perone argues that this lyric establishes a sub-theme that purveys throughout the album, wherein Trust is not only about the concept of broken trust, but it is also a direct warning to not make the same mistakes as the characters in the tracks. First-person narrators are introduced in "You'll Never Be a Man", which describes an encounter between a man and a visibly shaken woman. The man craves for honesty and tenderness but is unable to act on the matter, leading Costello to proclaim the title line. Gouldstone likens it to the tracks on Get Happy!! that involve domestic violence, particularly "Human Touch". A new wave track with a prominent drum mix, Mason deduced the