| The Gaslight Anthem – The Queen of Lower Chelsea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I believe the song is about a girl who grew up in Chelsea in Greenwich Village, NYC and was unspoiled ("Did you make all the right moves,/Take all the right drugs right on time?") who left because she wanted to be famous or simply to get away from her neighborhood ("Were your records all you had to pass the time?/Or maybe you were taken by the mysteries of New Orleans?/Or the uptight, rowdy girls of Lower Chelsea?" and "American girls, they want the whole world/They want every last little light in New York City"). And now this girls is reminiscing about her hometown because she's lonely and obviously not doing what she had dreamed to be doing ("When you're working full-time/And spending all of your nights never dancing like you did.") The author/singer tells her that she should have stayed in Chelsea (maybe even with him) but that now it's too late ("everyone has a price... not even me"). | |
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