| Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is my favourite AM song by far, and it was a great way to start their first album. As it's already been said, it's simple and there is no hidden meaning. With the exception of "Perhaps Vampires...", all of their first album was very literal; it was only on the second album that Alex starting experimenting broadly with metaphor and simile - "Old Yellow Bricks", "Teddy Picker", "This House is a Circus"... This song is literally the view from the afternoon, looking forward to the evening. When you're daydreaming about your forthcoming night out - especially when you're you're a teenager as the AMs were when this was written - you have big expectations. Tonight you're gonna pull a girl, you're gonna be generally lucky... But... the truth is it will end up being a night similar to the others you've experienced; you will just get too drunk in the same pubs and clubs you always end up in and eventually do something embarrassing, something that seemed to make sense at the time. One such embarrassing act is sending silly text messages to girls you like. I'm sure most of us have done the drunken text message thing, I have a friend who would text girls love statements whenever he was pissed - as Alex says, all it really communicates to the girl concerned is that you were very drunk when you wrote it, regardless of the words you used. So yeah... brilliant song, with a direct meaning that is so easy to relate to. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Still Take You Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song proves why Alex is such a good songwriter. A genuine, honest and totally relatable outlook on dealings with the "airhead" type. I've definitely been there, though I don't feel so guilty after hearing this! Brilliant song. | |
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