| Interpol – All the Rage Back Home Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This to me is about a man whose youthful romantic delusions are starting to fade with maturity. The songs begins, in sound and lyric, in a kind of romantic rapture with, fittingly, the singer being almost unaccompanied. Then it kicks to life with a he said/she said structure, in which his mood of rapture is brought back to earth with the actual presence and demands of the other. The genius for me is the chorus: The "I keep falling..." sets up the idea of a happy, Beatles-esque sentiment, which is then undercut with the shift from major to minor chord and the kicker "...maybe half the time." It's a man who can't sustain the romantic illusions of his youth. The title of the songs is cryptic, but I believe refers both to the disappointment/unhappiness he feels in himself and also imposes on his partner, for whom he can no longer be the perfect poet-lover. | |
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