This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
There you stood, that'll teach ya
To look so good and feel so right
Let me tell you 'bout the girl I met last night
It's understood, I had to reach ya
I let the wheel of fortune spin
I touched your hand before the crowd
Started crushin' in
Now I'm higher than a kite
I know I'm gettin' hooked on your love
Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat
Beggin' for your touch in the middle
Of the street and I --
I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl
I must be living in a fantasy world
I've searched the whole world over
To find a heart so true
Such complete intoxication
I'm high on you
Smart and coy, a little crazy
The kinda face that starts a fight
Let me tell you 'bout the girl I had last night
Piercin' eyes, like a raven
You seemed to share my secret sin
We were high before the night
Started kickin' in
Now I'm screamin' in the night
I know I'm gettin' hooked on your love
Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat
Beggin' for your touch in the middle
Of the street and I --
I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl
I must be living in a fantasy world
I've searched the whole world over
To find a heart so true
Such complete intoxication
I'm high on you
To look so good and feel so right
Let me tell you 'bout the girl I met last night
It's understood, I had to reach ya
I let the wheel of fortune spin
I touched your hand before the crowd
Started crushin' in
Now I'm higher than a kite
I know I'm gettin' hooked on your love
Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat
Beggin' for your touch in the middle
Of the street and I --
I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl
I must be living in a fantasy world
I've searched the whole world over
To find a heart so true
Such complete intoxication
I'm high on you
Smart and coy, a little crazy
The kinda face that starts a fight
Let me tell you 'bout the girl I had last night
Piercin' eyes, like a raven
You seemed to share my secret sin
We were high before the night
Started kickin' in
Now I'm screamin' in the night
I know I'm gettin' hooked on your love
Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat
Beggin' for your touch in the middle
Of the street and I --
I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl
I must be living in a fantasy world
I've searched the whole world over
To find a heart so true
Such complete intoxication
I'm high on you
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Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
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.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
I'm confused. So this is a song about love at first sight? Do the lyrics switch perspectives? Is he singing to the object of his desire the whole time? What does "Let me tell you about the girl I met/had last night" mean? Is it an aside to the listener?
Zorro3, I think the lyrics switch perspectives, like he's talking to a friend in the first verse, and then he directs his lyrics to the girl in the chorus. But it does get slightly confusing...
Anyway, this song is so perfect; I love the beat and the melody! It reminds me of a guy I really loved. We were completely intoxicated with each other....man, we had it all. Sadly now we're both moving on because circumstances didn't allow us to be together. I'll never forget him though - I have him to thank for introducing me to awesome epic music like this. =)
Survivor survived!!! xD
It's obvious that this song is about a groupie that someone in the band wrote about.
"I touched your hand before the crowd started crushing in" --a fan at a concert.
"I've searched the whole world over to find a heart so true"--a fan's admiration.
"Let me tell you about the girl I had last night" --he slept with her.
There do seem to be two perspectives in this song that make it confusing. However, I'm not sure he's actually talking to two different people: the woman- the object of his desires and maybe a friend with whom he discusses women. One possibility is that all of the lyrics are directed only at the woman, but that his perspective in life changes. I know it's strange, but leap with me for a moment.
In the beginning of the song, he knows that he's a famous singer of a well-known band. The woman seems to be a groupie that he may or may not have slept with (I suspect that he has), but that he doesn't really see as any great gift ('I let the wheel of fortune spin' = I didn't go after you in any meaningful way when I had the chance, because I was just running through my luck and my women as a famous rockstar), because he can get a woman any time he wants. He keeps rubbing this idea that he can get anyone anytime into the head of the groupie- probably while he's with her and then later...
The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' seems to have two meanings- 1) that he selected her as the groupie from the crowd- but then, later- the crowd started rushing in but not for him- for HER- as though she later developed some kind of fame on her own that left him out in the cold.
The rest of the lyrics seem to indicate that the life perspective of the singer has changed and that now he knows what it's like to be a groupie to a famous person that you can't really have. There are still all of these little digs at the object of his desire, though, because he still has a massive ego and wants to remind her that he can still get anyone anytime he wants... but obviously not... he can't seem to get back the woman he realized he wanted when it was possibly too late.
Also, 'high on you' seems to have a couple meanings- 1) the poetic meaning of just feeling the euphoria and craziness of being in love with someone and 2) maybe the idea that he's literally doing drugs to try to get that feeling again that he had when he was briefly with her, because the other women that he can easily get just aren't doing it for him anymore.
@thirteencats I'm responding to my own interpretation, because I'm new here and can't figure out how to edit my original comment. The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' also seems to be a dig at the woman as though to remind her that HE touched her hand before anyone else did. He's trying to remind her of when the tables had previously been turned that had him as the powerful one and the woman as the groupie wanting him.
Great song about love at first sight. I was a big Survivor fan in high school, I liked the black and white video of them performing in a room of hanging light bulbs.
Great tune. About a guy that sees a girl, gets to know her, and she eventually starts to grow on him. Damn, survivor is awesome. Soooo under-rated.
aww i love this song best line such complete intoxication i'm high on you :o)