| Metric – Lost Kitten Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it tells us right away what's going on. There's a warning at the beggining, "Don't say yes if you can't say no" and then it tells the story of a guy who is looking simply for happiness for himself and finds a girl at a halfway house. He's sympathetic to her, "Victim of the system, say it isn't so", and then she takes care of him, "Squatted on the doorstep, swallowed all the blow" (not swollen on the blow). In other words, she doesn't spit but swallows. So when it says, "I was looking for a hooker when I found you" it means he found this willing girl at a halfway house. "No more hard-headed Saturdays, they got it they want it they give it away" Now he doesn't have to worry about the dating scene or even paying for hookers because he found someone who's giving it away. "You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes/ You'll never be mine, ah, but you got my eyes" He doesn't want her for anything other then to look at and take care of his happiness "So pent up, I was coming onto you/ Happy in the nighttime, howlin at the moon/ Sippin on cocktails, drinking in the loo/ There's something about you I hold on to" He hit on her because of his pent up urges and then they have some good times, or at least she's willing at first, now he doesn't want to let her go even though he only wants her for one thing (You'll never be mine, ah, but you got my eyes). "When you lie, I'll cover it up/ When you hide, I'll cover it up/ When you cry, I'll cover it up/ When you come undone, I'll cover it up" Then he tells her that if she trys to tell anyone or acts emotional because he's taking advantage of her he'll just cover it up. I think that's why there was the warning at the beggining, "Don't say yes, if you can't say no" she should have said no from the beggining instead of saying yes only to find out she can't say no later. |
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