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One Night Only – Nintendo Lyrics 15 years ago
I aint sure about this song, I have feeling its kinda like a help me plea...

Bear with me...
But it sounds like George is singing about someone he hasn't met yet, he's saying;
"life slips by on an absent mind
you still smile and it picks me up"
I reckon its about wishing someone to come along and let life slip by.

Then there is this desperation about the chorus, he's staring at the window thinking where are you? Almost as if he wants to find this person, just my feelings on it...

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Maxïmo Park – Tanned Lyrics 16 years ago
About how superficial some things can seem...

But they can make a lasting impact.

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Maxïmo Park – In Another World Lyrics 16 years ago
This song has strong connotations of Tuxedo Princess / Royale

The night club boats that were in Gateshead and Middlesbrough :-)

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Maxïmo Park – Wraithlike Lyrics 16 years ago
"Copies of Sight and Sound she left lying around on the floor"

Sight and Sound is a magazine from the british film institute

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Young Knives – We Are The Also Rans Lyrics 16 years ago
Its about feeling insignificent, feeling like just another person in a long line. Being a also ran!

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Young Knives – Elaine Lyrics 16 years ago
I think this is about liking someone that everyone says is no good for you...

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Young Knives – Coastguard Lyrics 16 years ago
If you can, try to listen to the 'Nolens Volens' Demo version of this.

I think its about what sataygre says.

But I'd like too add something.

He says 'Coastguard are you familiar' is this perhaps a question? Like asking himself, 'I know that face'

I also think its about domestic violence and such too. Some of the lyrics have that sort of undertone!

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The Futureheads – Back To The Sea Lyrics 16 years ago
The line is;
"the least you want to know"

I think this is about thinking carefully about your actions, and how things can have knock on consequences...

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The Futureheads – He Knows Lyrics 16 years ago
Yes, the song is about an actual situation... A girl from Sunderland was abducted raped and killed, and this song is about the emotional termoil getting mixxed up with people's own interpretations... "It was just a matter of time"

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Maxïmo Park – Parisian Skies Lyrics 16 years ago
Yes, this and many of the other songs on O.E.P are about Rebecca, and yes the circumstances mentioned earlier are true...

Still a heart wrentching song...

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Maxïmo Park – A Cloud of Mystery Lyrics 16 years ago
This song is possibly about the buzz you get while meeting someone for the first time... Further more its about how that 'buzz' subsides later on.

Also, there is some lyric corrections to be made;

Her painted features smothered in the groom
-should be
Her painted features smothered in the gloom

At night she strips away the face
-should be
At night she scrapes away the face

Kept for a Thursday afternoon
-should be
King for a Thursday afternoon

Bathroom lights start the evening
-should be
Bathroom lights stud the evening

Hairspray curls push the cheek
-should be
Hairspray curls brush the cheek


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Maxïmo Park – Karaoke Plays Lyrics 16 years ago
When I was at a gig at the Head of Steam in Newcastle, Paul Smith told us the song was about the boring and small things that go on in life, and take up your thoughts while something bigger is going on!

This leads me to make another interpretation of the song!

Maybe, the smaller picture is; someone getting run down (whether thats taken as run down by a car / some other form of transport, or just feeling run down), and karaoke playing (something you can often hear on the streets of the area!!)

and the bigger picture is the partner of the person focusing on the smaller things wanting to leave!

Just another thought :P

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The Futureheads – Favours for Favours Lyrics 17 years ago
Yes, its about a bloke learning to dance to impress a girl, and she asks what it is he has learnt, and its a perfect chance to dance with her

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Maxïmo Park – The Coast Is Always Changing Lyrics 17 years ago
Maximo Park are from Newcastle, they are based there, but the band members were born in different parts!!

The song is about the railway line from Newcastle - The seaside, and everything in the tow changing, and the coast doing too, its reflecting on past expeeriances

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Maxïmo Park – Parisian Skies Lyrics 17 years ago
Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase,
The breath on your neck,
And the locked embrace

Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase,
The hairs on your neck,
And a lost embrace

All of the tiny events in your back,
It reminds me of the way that porcelain cracks.

There the really good lines in this song, so romantic

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Maxïmo Park – Our Velocity Lyrics 17 years ago
The bits at the begining could be about his home town, Billingham in the north east of england...

Beneath the concrete there’s a sound
A muffled cry below the ground
There is a poison in the air
A mix of chemicals and fear

this could be about the chemicle works billingham is surrounded by, and the mines that are underneath billingham

Its about his feelings of isolation

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Maxïmo Park – La Quinta Lyrics 17 years ago
This is about how constant life is, yet with its little suprises. He talks about certainty!

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Maxïmo Park – Karaoke Plays Lyrics 17 years ago
The lyric;

'Every night we've got so much to say
I wanna hear all the things you did today'

Could be refference that the person portrayed never listened to the person who has left, and just took them for granted, and now there gone, he misses them so...

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Maxïmo Park – Karaoke Plays Lyrics 17 years ago
the song Karaoke Plays is perhaps one of Maximo Parks most mellow and meaningful songs...

It is perhaps about someone who someone can't see anymore, how 'i waited up for you' but he couldn't ever see this person...

He talks about what makes a grown man cry, thats more of a statment than a question, he's saying this is what makes a grown man cry!

'We never did want the dawn to break
Decided from the sheets in which we laid
You know I changed my ways forever
The North Sea crashes through your dreams as I leave'

Hes talking deeply about how he wishes his last moments with this person could have lasted forever.. and when he left, it broke both of them apart!

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Maxïmo Park – A19 Lyrics 17 years ago
This song is about the A19 in the North East of england, its a road Paul Smith used to get from Billingham - Newcastle!

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