This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Cassie take me dancing
It's been a lonely week
We'll take the 109 past the coke sign
To where the black crew and the big city reefs
Well I'll be David Johansen
and you can be my brand new lead
We'll swing all night, 'neath the big strobe light
'til there's blisters on my feet
And then love will call a time
When the charms of the world are all mine
Where we just sweetly grin, and we woke up singing alone, singing alone
Way back before all the signs turned faded and hazy
Before I became so jaded and lazy
The one sad day you awoke to discover, you were wasting your time with a fool for a lover
A fool for a lover (x2)
Who's trading your love for the dreams of another
Don't take the first train home on me
make a run before the morning sun
Oh so stiff and sore from the hard dance floor
We're reminded, that we're not 21 anymore
Like the girl waiting back at home, with the cut key to our front door
Passed out on a chair with a streak in her hair
Her home run, spread out across the floor
Dreaming of life in the light
Where everything works out right
Oh its a life where a dance can save a romance overnight, overnight
The issue in ten years of running the same conversation
Leaves your soul aching alone
Would she wake up shocked and ashamed to discover that the years rolled by losing love after lover?
Will she wake up shocked and ashamed to discover?
All the time, putting up walls in between one another
Across the white grey land and the sky up above her
All over the world people crying to each other, and we're wasting my life, with a fool for a lover
A fool for a lover
Just a fool for a lover
That's right
You traded your love for the dreams of another
Dont sit, don't you let it show, don't tell your babysitter it's best she doesn't know
Don't cry, don't let her discover, that the years roll by losing love after lover
Uh don't cry, dont let you show, don't tell the babysitter man it's best she doesn't know
Don't cry, don't let her discover, that we all wake up ashamed to discover, that we're wasting our time with fools for lovers, for lovers.
It's been a lonely week
We'll take the 109 past the coke sign
To where the black crew and the big city reefs
Well I'll be David Johansen
and you can be my brand new lead
We'll swing all night, 'neath the big strobe light
'til there's blisters on my feet
And then love will call a time
When the charms of the world are all mine
Where we just sweetly grin, and we woke up singing alone, singing alone
Way back before all the signs turned faded and hazy
Before I became so jaded and lazy
The one sad day you awoke to discover, you were wasting your time with a fool for a lover
A fool for a lover (x2)
Who's trading your love for the dreams of another
Don't take the first train home on me
make a run before the morning sun
Oh so stiff and sore from the hard dance floor
We're reminded, that we're not 21 anymore
Like the girl waiting back at home, with the cut key to our front door
Passed out on a chair with a streak in her hair
Her home run, spread out across the floor
Dreaming of life in the light
Where everything works out right
Oh its a life where a dance can save a romance overnight, overnight
The issue in ten years of running the same conversation
Leaves your soul aching alone
Would she wake up shocked and ashamed to discover that the years rolled by losing love after lover?
Will she wake up shocked and ashamed to discover?
All the time, putting up walls in between one another
Across the white grey land and the sky up above her
All over the world people crying to each other, and we're wasting my life, with a fool for a lover
A fool for a lover
Just a fool for a lover
That's right
You traded your love for the dreams of another
Dont sit, don't you let it show, don't tell your babysitter it's best she doesn't know
Don't cry, don't let her discover, that the years roll by losing love after lover
Uh don't cry, dont let you show, don't tell the babysitter man it's best she doesn't know
Don't cry, don't let her discover, that we all wake up ashamed to discover, that we're wasting our time with fools for lovers, for lovers.
Lyrics submitted by javsav
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It's about how you often think you're in love with someone but you're really not, how you're just a fool 'cause u liked the other person at the start. And how hard it is to find someone you love.
Or maybe how you're with someone you love, but they don't actually love you, they are just a fool for a lover.
I saw Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males on Saturday night (awesome concert by the way) and before they played this song, Dan Kelly said it was "just a song about breaking-up".
i read an interview where he said the song tracks a couple going out for one last night to try save their marriage, and the babysitter reference is used as a metaphor for innocence
"To where the black crew and the big city reefs"
Who in their right mind would think that they are the actual lyrics?
So much of it is wrong. How can I update it?
hararch24 hit it spot on I think. Except I'll expand on the babysitter reference a bit:
It is a metaphor for innocence and the original feeling of love between two people. They get home and can either choose to wake the metaphorical babysitter from her dream of the first fruits of their love, or they can let the dream continue.
"To where the black crew and the big city reefs"
Who in their right mind would think that they are the actual lyrics?
So much of it is wrong. How can I update it?
hararch24 hit it spot on I think. Except I'll expand on the babysitter reference a bit:
It is a metaphor for innocence and the original feeling of love between two people. They get home and can either choose to wake the metaphorical babysitter from her dream of the first fruits of their love, or they can let the dream continue.
you can update it easily. read about it in the site FAQ. and it was very hard to try and decipher most of these lyrics so please dont be so rude when ur saying some of them are wrong. i knew that some lines were wrong but it is harder than you think to hear the actual lyrics. the ones that i did get correct may seem obvious to you because i have written them out. this was just a start. i didn't see you uploading the lyrics. finally, suck my dick.
anyway, moving on... i thought the title was a reference to the smith's 'shoplifters of the world unite'... anyone?