Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
When Ivor peered above a spectacle
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometimes these eyes forget the face they're peering from
When the face they peer upon
Well, you know that face as I do
And how in the return of the gaze
She can return you the face that you are staring from
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
Gregor was down again, said, "Come on, kick me again"
Said, "I'm so drunk, I don't mind if you kill me
Come on, you gutless
Yeah, I'm alive, oh, I'm alive
Oh, I'm alive and how I know it
Oh, but for chips and for freedom, I could die"
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we, we need the money
When Ivor peered above a spectacle
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometimes these eyes forget the face they're peering from
When the face they peer upon
Well, you know that face as I do
And how in the return of the gaze
She can return you the face that you are staring from
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
Gregor was down again, said, "Come on, kick me again"
Said, "I'm so drunk, I don't mind if you kill me
Come on, you gutless
Yeah, I'm alive, oh, I'm alive
Oh, I'm alive and how I know it
Oh, but for chips and for freedom, I could die"
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we, we need the money
Lyrics submitted by blood_and_the_ice
Jacqueline Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Mccarthy Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Ref: theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/15/franzferdinand (15 Apr 2005)
a song about how work can be so hard, when 'gregor' is being beat up, it could be that he's getting beaten up not phyically but mentally because of the strains of work. and to escape this strain, you have to go on holiday to recop your energy.
i agree whole heartidly. at first i thought it was some guy going up to jaqueline and telling her of this wonderful place where no one works (unless they need to) and that she should join them.
This whole CD seems to all go together, thematically and mood-wise. In the beginning, the boy and girl seem to be torn apart by some secret. He decides to tell her something tonight, then they realize they won't be leaving together. He hides in the matinee, where he cheats a little, with whoever else in is in the dark. In Auf Achse and Cheating on You, it just chronicles what happens during the cheating, which seems to be consentual. His fire overtakes him, and it seems like it will burn him down. Everything the new person does and says is like a dart of pleasure. Then wait, whoa! The new person is a guy!!! But the guy has the girl come back, so they can reconcile, and make things end well. But she ends up leaving again, which he demands at the end (don't forget to leave). Then he kills himself, because he can't seem to make things work.
That's awesome.
@jerem200 so true<br />
@jerem200 so true<br />
@jerem200 so true<br />
@jerem200 so true<br />
jerem, that's interesting. I never saw the album that way. I don't thik the songs were written to fit together like that, but I can see how they could tell that story.
I don't know what it's about, but foreverdelayed and fetter you guys have good ideas, the albums songs werent meant to fit jerem, but it does fit into a story.
its seems this song is about only working for money not for the pleasure of doing what you love. i love how his heavy scottish accent makes 'gutless' sounds like 'get less', i love scottish accents
I heard somewhere that Gregor was really a friend of the group, that one night had gotten really drunk and had a bad run-in with these guys and they were beating him to a bloody pulp, and he was telling them everything thats said in the lyrics, finally after the guys had gone; Gregor was laying on the side of the alley and somebody picked him up and took him to the hospital. Whenever somebody asks him about it he says, "Only angels could have saved me."- I'm not sure about the Jacqueline part
jacqueline was one of the groups ex girl friends
Jacqueline part is pretty simple. Ivor was "ugly" - metaphorically, and staring at a beautiful girl, "she returned him the gaze" that he was staring from - i.e. was "ugly" to him. which happens.