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Riga Girls Lyrics
Are your friends really your friends?
Are you still waiting for the end of the day?
Hey, hey, when will you learn to love what’s sent from up above?
Riga girls go like this
Make me wish I was someone else
Oh, Riga girls are you sad?
Oh, I wish I had someone
Just a little bit of snake oil, tin foil
It takes so little charm to keep you hanging on
But it’s a facade like the sky, like the moon, like your eyes
Riga girls like to kiss
Make me wish I was someone else
Oh, Riga girls are you sad?
Oh, I wish I had someone
Who would want you as you are?
What can you give they couldn’t get from someone else?
What life of ease, what wedding bells, what pretty stones, what precious wealth?
Don’t be lonely, why don’t you call me?
It’s called a come on, come on, come on baby
Does your heart echo like a hall
‘Cause there’s no one there at all
Are you still waiting for the end of the day?
Hey, hey, when will you learn to love what’s sent from up above?
Make me wish I was someone else
Oh, Riga girls are you sad?
Oh, I wish I had someone
It takes so little charm to keep you hanging on
But it’s a facade like the sky, like the moon, like your eyes
Make me wish I was someone else
Oh, Riga girls are you sad?
Oh, I wish I had someone
What can you give they couldn’t get from someone else?
What life of ease, what wedding bells, what pretty stones, what precious wealth?
It’s called a come on, come on, come on baby
Does your heart echo like a hall
‘Cause there’s no one there at all
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okay he actually explained it at a concert. steve tannen, the guy from the weepies, accidentally got on a spam list and got 500 emails a day. and he was so lonely at this time that sometimes he would actually read them. and he said they all had interesting subjects like 'STEVE!!!' and he would be like, yeah?? lol (he's so cute). so one said "RIGA GIRLS!!!!!!!! GO LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he opened it and got a TON of porn. lol so but it's a beautiful song, he was able to explain loneliness in this interesting way based on a very odd story. i think the "riga girls are you sad?" part is just... so touching. fantastic band.
Riga is indeed the capitol of Latvia where it just so happens that prostitution is incredibly common and very cheap. So I always just related this song to that, almost a Holden Caufield moment where you just pay a prostitute to have someone to listen to you and pretend as if they cared.
yah thats exactly what steve tannen said at the show i went to and i heard that story. i love the song though, i think its just like so odd that i can find it relatable, and i think a lot of people can. as stupid as it sounds, relating average people to porn stars but you have to just think how lonely they are to do the things they do, and when he says "oh i wish i had someone." and that makes me sad cause i always thought the last line was "is your heart of gold like a hall? cause theres no one there at all." but i guess echo makes much more sense. rats
what is a riga girl?
yea, I have no idea. I enjoy the song. I tried looking up definitions and whatnot of "riga" and all I could find was that there is a "gulf of riga" and apparently its the capitol of Latvia.
yah hab is right it the name is derived from a spam e-mail subject line.
ccockerill, you said it best with holden caufield. =]
"Does your heart echo like a hall 'cause there's no one there at all?"
Priceless lyrics.