| Arctic Monkeys – Fire and the Thud Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it’s about the same girl he is in love with “You showed me my tomorrow Beside a box of matches A welcomed threatening stir” The girl he likes shows him what the future could be like for the two of them. she can burn that picture she painted of their future with the box of matches but it’s a ‘welcoming threatening stir’ cos he would like to be with this girl. “My hopes of being stolen Might just ring true Depends who you prefer” He wants to leave his current girlfriend and hopes to be ‘stolen’ by this other girl but this other girl might also be interested in other men so it depends on who she prefers him or another man. “am i snapping the excitement If i pack away the laughter and tell you how it feels?” He asks if he is breaking the excitement if he is serious for once and tells this girl how he really feels about her. “and does the burden come to meet you If i’ve questions of the feature that rolls on your dream reel?” He knows that this girl has dreamt of him and asks would it burden her if he asks about what happens in her dreams of him. “the day after you stole my heart Everything i touched told me it would be better shared with you” Ever since he fell for this girl, everything around him tells him he would be better off with her instead of his current girlfriend. “and you’re hiding in my soup And the book reveals your face And you’re splashing in my eyelids” He sees this girl everywhere he goes. When he’s eating soup she’s in his soup, when he looks at a book he sees her face, when he shuts his eyes he sees her. “As the concentration continually breaks I did request the mark you cast didn’t heal as fast I hear your voice in silences Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?” He can’t think about her all day everyday but he doesn’t want to forget her. He hears her voice when it’s silent. He asks will his love for her be thrown back in his face and dropped like a thud. “in the jostling crowd You’re not allowed To tell the truth And the photobooth’s a liar” Cos he’s in the public eye, she’s not allowed to tell the truth about herself and that she looks better in the flesh. “there’s a sharpened explanation But there’s no screaming reason to enquire I’d like to poke them in their prying eyes with things They’d never see if it smacked them in their temples” He’s saying there’s a real explanation of why this girl has to hide her identity but no one is really interested to know the real reason. He’d like to hit people with prying eyes because they would start saying all sorts of crap if he and this girl got together. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Potion Approaching Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it’s about a girl he loves but isn’t with “i was biting the time zone And we embellished the banks of our bloodstreams And threw caution to the colourful” He gets drunk putting alcohol in his bloodstream and throws caution to the colourful, so he’s out to be a happy drunk. “then we fell asleep in the car Until the bumps woke me up in your grip And the tide took me to your mouth And then swept me back down to your palms” He dozes off from being drunk and dreams of the girl who, in his dream, wakes him up by gripping on his hard cock. ‘tide took me to your mouth’ means she starts to give him a blowjob, ‘and then swept me back down to your palms’ means she goes back to wanking him off. “It’s them that put me inside the reminder that Yours is the only ocean That i want to swing from Your is the only ocean That i want to hang on” I don’t know you “them” are but here he is singing to the girl that he only wants to shag her. “i’ve got this ego mechanic She’s always trying to give me vitamins She’d be frightened of your reflection I preferred her as a cartoon” He’s telling this girl about his current girlfriend who likes to stroke his ego. she thinks of his health and is always trying to make him better by giving him vitamins. His girlfriend would be frightened to see this girls face. ‘i preferred her as a cartoon’ means he preferred his girlfriend when she was made for children. “if i could be someone else for a week I’d still spend it chasing after you She’s not shattering my attitudes No matter how she fold the potion” If he could be someone else he’d be chasing this girl instead of being with his current girlfriend. His girlfriend tries really hard to put him off this girl but she can’t change his mind ‘no matter how she folds the potion’. “potion approaching Shield your eyes Potion approaching Visualise Holding a token Swollen in size” He’s saying “i’m gonna cum. Shield your eyes. I’m gonna cum. Visualise holding my dick that’s swollen in size” “if we’re going to escape We really ought to think it through Would you like me to build you a go kart?” He wants to leave his current girlfriend and run off with the other girl so he offers to build a go kart for them to escape the life they have. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Secret Door Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i thinks it's about a girl in the public eye. "fools on parade cavort and carry on for waiting eyes ones you would rather be beside than in front of she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares" he's talking about celebs who court the papparazi and this girl he talks of is so confident she doesn't seem scared of the paps. "she swam out of tonight's phantasm. grabbed my hand and made it very clear there's absolutely nothing for us here it's a magnolia celebration to be attended on a wednesday night it's better that than get a reputation as a miserable tyke at least that's the conclusion she came to in this overture" fame and being shot by the paps means nothing to her and she grabs him and tells him it's not worth them hanging around cos it's not reality. they're at a party. it's on a wednesday but she feels like she should be there so she doesn't get a rep for being a 'miserable tyke'. at least that was what she thought. "the secret door swings behind us, she's saying nothing, she's just giggling along" she takes him away from the party and she knows she just plays along with how she is supposed to act but she knows she's not what the press make her out to be. "her arms were folded most indignant not looking like she was soon to leave, i had to squint in order to believe. like a butler pushing on a bookshelf and unveiling the unexpected i who was earlier reluctant was suddenly embarrassed and corrected how could such a creature survive in such a habitat?" she feels that she wants to show him the real her cos she isn't what he expected and he has to squint his eyes in order to believe what he's seeing. like pushing on a bookshelf that suddenly reveals a secret entrance that leads to somewhere unknown. he was reluctant to believe her when she reveals the real her to him and suddenly feels embarrassed and corrected. he wonders who she manages to live the way she does and keep up the facade. "even if they were to find us, i wouldn't notice, i'm completely occupied" if anyone from the "magnolia celebration" were to find them then he wouldn't even notice because he's too focused on the girl. "fools on parade frolic and fuck about to make a gaze turn to a scribble on a page by a picture that holds her absence but you're daft to think she'd care" he's talking about celebs doing whatever they can to get their picture in the papers instead of the papers writing about the girl he is with. but people would be daft to even think she'd care about being in the papers. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Dangerous Animals Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i think it's about a girl he keeps dreaming of. "i'm pinned down by the dark been fighting with my sheets and nearly crying in my sleep. yes, i'm battling that well told gripe, the most frustrating type, you should have racing stripes the way you keep me in pursuit you sharpen the heel of your boot and you press it in my chest and you make me wheeze then to my knees you promote me" this girl he likes in his dreams is a crush and in his dreams she has him hooked and is teasing him. one minute she's walking all over him with her sharp heeled boots and the next she raises his hopes up by praising him. "A.N.I.M.A.L she makes my head pirouette more than i would be willing to confess D.A.N.G.E.R.O.U.S" she is the dangerous animal that drives him wild but he doesn't want her to know he feels so much for her "the light it fidgets through, the thoughts will soon revert to you. about as bashful as a tribal dance, the first and final chance and of course the audience of frighteners and fiends, divided up into two teams. when the acrobat fell off the beam she broke everyone's heart." the morning light interrupts his dream and is just about to wake him but he goes back to dreaming of her. he has to be brave to get her and feels he has one and only one chance to make an impression on her. the press and the fans will be looking to see what happens, the press and fans will be divided into two teams of wanting them two to get together and not wanting to see them get together, but it will break everyone's heart if she wasn't on the scene. "i'm pinned down by the dark" he's always waiting to have another dream of her so he loves night time when he's ready to sleep and has another chance of dreaming of her. "the most unsuitable pet, it's been long enough now so let's make a mess lioness" she's too wild for him but he's been dreaming of her for a long time and he wants the dream to turn into a reality and finally shag. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i think this song is about attraction. "outside the cafe by the cracker factory you were practising a magic trick and as my thoughts got rude as you talked and chewed on the last of your pics and mix" he meets her and becomes instantly attracted to her and is turned on by watching her eat her pick and mix. "you said "you're mistaken if you're thinking that i haven't been called 'cold' before as you bit into your strawberry lace then offered me your attention in the form of a gobstopper it's all you had left and it was going to waste" she's a sweet girl but she lets him know that she has been described as 'cold' in the past. she then offers him the last of her sweets, it's a gobstopper so she probably wanted to shut him up by offering him the gobstopper. "your pastimes consisted of the strange, the twisted and deranged and i loved that little game you had called 'crying lightening' and how you liked to aggravate the ice cream man on rainy afternoons" the girl has strange interests and does weird things in her spare time. when she cries it's like lightening and rain that will lose the ice cream man custom cos he can't sell too many icecreams when it's raining. "the next time that i caught my own reflection is was on its way to meet you, thinking of excuses to postpone. when he looks at himself in the mirror he sees himself meeting her again but he's scared and thinks up excuses not to meet her. "you never looked like yourself from the side but your profile could not hide the fact you knew i was approaching your throne" he thinks of her as if she is a princess and she knows that he thinks she is a princess too. "with folded arms you occupied the bench like toothache, stood and puffed your chest out like you'd never lost a war. although i tried so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction there was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw" she's so sweet she's like a toothache and she's confident that she has got him and so she "puffed her chest out like she never lost a war". he tried not to show his attraction to her but couldn't "there was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw". "uninviting, but not half as impossible as everyone assumes you are." she not warming to him but he's not doing too badly, not "as impossible as everyone assumes". |
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