| Talking Heads – Stay Up Late Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song starts out sounding really happy and cheerful, with a couple just adoring their new baby and thinking how cute he is and how you just want to wake him up and play with him but then, in the middle of all this cheeriness, comes this incredibly anguished "i know you wanna leave me" which changes the whole meaning for me. so i think its really about two people whose relationship is on the rocks and so they just desperately focus on the baby, which may even be the thing that has come between them. the lyrics even say "why dont we pretend", so they're just pretending everything is hunky dory. the reference to money could be ironic, and a clue to some of their misery | |
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