New York

i remember seeing this song on the back cover and thinking 'oh great, just another song about new york or america.. bet it'll be crap.' but it's my favourite on the cd. it's brilliant.

pretending something is bigger than it is, pretending something is smaller than it is.

neither of them help anybody. sometimes staying in bed just seems like the best option.

it's a real song. simple. but real.

This could be about someone whos life or day was fine then suddenly finding themself losing their mind over something or for completely no reason. Something possibly of little or much larger significance or past problems, but the alcohol or drugs twist bring out problems and twist everything out of proportion and the person just loses complete control. This person wakes up the following day feeling regret but they find themself still suffering from the consequences of being on drugs.

This could be about someone whos life or day was fine then suddenly finding themself losing their mind over something or for completely no reason. Something possibly of little or much larger significance or past problems, but the alcohol or drugs bring out problems and twist everything out of proportion and the person just loses complete control. This person wakes up the following day feeling regret but they find themself still suffering from the consequences of being on drugs.

It's so simple, and yet the singing can be easily mistaken for another band, because of songs like 'Black Fingernails Red Wine' and 'Sarah' greatly differ in singing techniques.

Hey hey, i know, but who could blame us, under pressure

seems impossible for aussie bands to crack the U.S music market. eskimo joe tryed and didnt do too well "should have stayed in bed". i think when he says i know it wasnt new york he means that new york was not how he expected it to be with the money, glamour, lifestyle all that stuff we think about when we think of new york, somethin like that, cheers

i love this song too and it seems to be really powerful and i'd listen to it but i wouldnt know what it meant.

thinking about it maybe they're simply singing about fate. There were things that were out of their control "who could blame us?" and when something bad did happen he wished he stayed in bed that morning.

I dont think it's New York literally, i just think it's a poetic way of saying it's nobody's fault...it was fate.

I actually thought it was about regret. You've done something, and now you regret it.

'And I know, I should've stayed in bed'. That's part of the regret.

Nobody thought it was about 9/11? "I should have stayed in bed" is about the people who I can only imagine were wishing they didn't come to work that day.