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Crawling With Idiot Lyrics

It's crawling with idiot
I'm itching to leave
I'm soft with fatigue I need something

I've never seen anything quite like you
In here

Come on it's not serious
I just need arms tonight

You're blue collar pride
And you're loose cotton cool
You're wilting a little
Nothing grows down here

Chrome
Smoke
Heat
Me and you
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Cover art for Crawling With Idiot lyrics by Elbow

FREAKIN AWSOME!

Cover art for Crawling With Idiot lyrics by Elbow

I think this song is about a guy going to a bar that isn't very nice, and then meeting a girl there, and trying to convince her to spend just one night with him.

Cover art for Crawling With Idiot lyrics by Elbow

and as far as I remember some interviews with Guy I think the girl was a barmaid and the guy was Guy and a bunch full of drunk folks... But when I think how Guy sings this I wonder why he could not convince the barmaid...he sounds so heartrending lovable there...

Cover art for Crawling With Idiot lyrics by Elbow

A good old-fashioned 'torch song', full of aching and yearning and need... but there's no pretence of it being a need for true love, just a need for a moment of connection with someone, anyone. It's a song about that slightly sweet loneliness you feel when drunk and alone in the early hours.

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Cover art for Crawling With Idiot lyrics by Elbow

Just a beautiful song. It should be "Your blue collar pride" not "you\'re"; "And your loose cotton cool" not "you\'re".\n\nThe narrator sees someone in a seedy bar filled with drunken louts. Clearly he feels "above" them, but he especially feels that this beauty he sees could do better and desires her. He feels he would be better for her than the "idiots" she seems to hang out with.\n\nTo me this is a beautiful evocation of that feeling we\'ve all had where we\'re lonely and see someone who makes us feel longing and an ache to be with them. It could even be someone we know and have a crush on. But in this case it\'s a stranger in a bar.

 
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