- Something Changed
- Pulp
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I wrote the song two hours before we met.
I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet.
Oh I could have stayed at home and gone to bed.
I could have gone to see a film instead.
You might have changed your mind and seen your friends.
Life could have been very different but then,
Something changed.
Do you believe that there's someone up above?
Does he have a timetable directing acts of love?
Why did I write this song on that one day?
Why did you touch my hand and softly say.
Stop asking questions that don't matter anyway.
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today.
Something changed.
When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing,
That in a matter of hours we'd change the way we were going.
Where would I be now if we'd never met?
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?
I dunno but like you said
Something changed.
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Written by Nick Banks, Jarvis Branson Cocker, Candida Doyle, Stephen Patrick Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Andrew Webber
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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- 17 Comments
I think it's a song in three parts. The first verse refers to/is set around the time of their first meeting. It recounts what their circumstances were, what they were doing before they knew each other.
The second verse is the middle period - the easy familiarity of her "just give us a kiss to celebrate" suggests the intimacy of an established relationship at its apex.
And the third is the end of their relationship. This time, her statement of "something changed" has a sadness about it. She doesn't feel the same about him any more, and is ending it.
That is how I always understood it. The whole song has a melancholy tone, as though it's being recounted sadly by the protagonist, who is now alone once again. I like how understated and poignant the ending is.
"Do you believe that there's someone up above?
Does he have a timetable directing acts of love?"
I love these lines, especially.
God, I wish more than any other band that Pulp would reunite. The only way American scum will ever get to see such a reunion is if Jarvis finally agrees to a reunion (or gets offered a van full of cash), with said reunion tour beginning at Coachella. That's only fair, I mean, they played every other festival in the world.
I also think this song is more about chance than anything. Like, fate can do so much, but then it's left entirely up to you. Jargvis has said loads of times he doesn't believe in fate or destiny - so, maybe this is just a song about a chance meeting that ended up quite nicely?
And I agree that this is a straight-up sincere love song, perhaps the only one in Pulp's catalogue not laced with bitterness or irony.