Referencing the Song of Songs, also known as Solomon’s song. It is a special scripture of the Old Testament, describing “the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy”, desiring each other and rejoicing in sexual intimacy.

Momus likens his own relation with ‘sweet Allison’ to that between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, making a naughty play on word with the ‘mine’, linking Solomon’s Song and Solomon’s Mine.

According to legend, king Solomon oversaw huge mines which were possibly the copper mines in Timna Valley, although confabulated to be in Africa in the popular 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines. The book has been adapted into comic book, tv series and movies, which probably inspired Momus to write about these mines.

Described in the Hebrew bible as the first temple in Jerusalem, destroyed after 400 years by the Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II.

The temple was an important milestone in the transition of ancient Israelite from polytheism to monotheist Yahwism.

Playing on the stereotype that black people have a special predilection for white chicken, Jay notes that antibiotics in meat production can make you question whether it is healthy. This ramps up the distrustful conspiratorial thinking that dominates his verse.

Pacific Palisades is a wealthy neighborhood in Los Angeles. LA is the city near where Kendrick Lamar hails from, albeit Compton: a city so different from the Palisades, it is like a different world.

Sixteen years old Kendrick.

Lydon was a bit pre-occupied with this lyrics, as Nick Launay recalls
in an interview with Fodderstompf:

They came into work on a song, which I could have sworn had the working title ‘Doom Sits in Gloom’, I only recently realised the song was released as ‘Home is Where the Heart is’, the B-side of ‘Flowers of Romance’… I know “Gloom sits in doom” is the lyric from ‘Four Enclosed Walls’, but maybe John liked the lyric and decided to keep it and use it later, and then rename the track

Doctors used to slap newly born baby’s in order clear their airways of fluid and stimulate them to breathe/cry.

This practice is now mostly replaced by vigorous rubbing with a towel, and sometimes mechanical suction is used to clear the airways of fluid.

John Lydon stated:

I don’t know why they slap their bottoms, I think it’s enormously cruel. It might have influenced me, is what I’m trying to say. Maybe they slapped the wrong end, they couldn’t tell my arse my head!

— Neil Spencer: Public Image Limited (Volume Three, May 1992)

Apparently, the band just lost touch with Jeannette Lee. The song makes it apparent that there was bad blood.

With PiL’s arrival in New York, Lee’s role [in the band] would lessen, and after splitting up with Levene, she eventually returned to London in 1982. Prior to leaving she had traveled to Rome with John Lydon to gather experience on the filming of ‘Order of Death.’ Apparently she never made an active decision to leave the company, however, things eventually just petered out; and she never returned.

Keith Levene has stated that this song is about Jeannette Lee, his former girlfriend and former ‘non-musical’ band member.

John Lydon stated, concerning Lee:

Jeannette actually never did anything, but she was chucked in there just… for one reason or another. Well she did look after the businessy side of things, and made sure things went out on time. She’s now a director of Rough Trade, so she obviously learnt something.

Lee is painted here as an opportunistic socialite. Lee eventually became a co-owner of the Rough Trade Records label and went on to manage many popular artists.