Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
When I saw you girl I knew
That you were something out of a story book
And I told me heart that we gotta take one look
I imagine both me and you
Doing what lovers do
Holding hands in the park
Making love girl after dark
(The ooh the ahh the ooh)
The sounds of the birds and the bees
Bringing you to your knees
Is all I want to do yeah
[Chorus:]
Dance dance dance, dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
I just want to dance with you
I just want to roll with you
I just want to be the one who really gets to know you
I don't care and I don't mind
I will spend the whole of my time
This is what it takes for me
To hold it down and make you mine
Every day spent like the first
Taking us right back to the birth of our love
Seems to me like I never get enough
Think about the way that we first kissed
It was a night like this
We stayed together every day, ever since
(The ooh the ahh the ooh)
The sounds of the birds and the bees
Bringing you to your knees
Is all I want to do yeah
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
The only thing between us is the floor
The DJ's playing our favorite song
So lets not take to long
I want to dance all through the night with you
Dance, dance daaance, yeah
I just want to dance with you
I just want to dance with you
I just want to roll with you
I just want to be the one who really gets to know you
I don't care and I don't mind
I will spend the whole of my time
This is what it takes for me to hold it down and make you mine
Dance dance dance, dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
Dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
When I saw you girl I knew
That you were something out of a story book
And I told me heart that we gotta take one look
I imagine both me and you
Doing what lovers do
Holding hands in the park
Making love girl after dark
(The ooh the ahh the ooh)
The sounds of the birds and the bees
Bringing you to your knees
Is all I want to do yeah
[Chorus:]
Dance dance dance, dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
I just want to dance with you
I just want to roll with you
I just want to be the one who really gets to know you
I don't care and I don't mind
I will spend the whole of my time
This is what it takes for me
To hold it down and make you mine
Every day spent like the first
Taking us right back to the birth of our love
Seems to me like I never get enough
Think about the way that we first kissed
It was a night like this
We stayed together every day, ever since
(The ooh the ahh the ooh)
The sounds of the birds and the bees
Bringing you to your knees
Is all I want to do yeah
[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
The only thing between us is the floor
The DJ's playing our favorite song
So lets not take to long
I want to dance all through the night with you
Dance, dance daaance, yeah
I just want to dance with you
I just want to dance with you
I just want to roll with you
I just want to be the one who really gets to know you
I don't care and I don't mind
I will spend the whole of my time
This is what it takes for me to hold it down and make you mine
Dance dance dance, dance dance dance
Makes me want to dance
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Dance (With U) Lyrics as written by Craig Paul Hardy Lemar Obika
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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