Feeling stuck? Self-loathing? Shoegazing? Pesky flies getting you down?
Try new supersonic Flypaper. It's catchy, and it's pop
Flypaper, do it again, do it again
Do it again, can he do it again?
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
Yeah, you see everyday
All the people standing at the train station
Left, right, left, right, left, right
We don't talk to each other now
What an alien nation
Uptight, uptight, uptight
I hope one day some things can get better
I hope some way our hearts can change the weather
As we walk this yellow road and try to shake the load
In this 4-1-6 area code
It's another night in TV land
I say
I'm not one to repeat myself
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
You think I don't know
Oh how I see your eyes run dry
Subliminal pro, I've got to go
Just so I can be the pawn in your chess game
the fame for checkmate,
I've got a new mind state
Plus I've got the power of the cat, rotate
I'm straight digging in my record crate
Lights in your party so they leave the hate
Time is a thief that leaves nothing behind
And I've got no grief or axe to grind in this fair city
I'm just a man who wants to understand
Who wants to know the plans, tell me the plans, tell me the plans
I'm not one to repeat myself
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
Yo, ok it seems at times that I'm under hypnosis
I suppose this city life is a process
I wrote this, like a million years ago
Tried to get out of the game a million tears ago
But I'm back, chillin', illin' for top billin'
Levitate to the ceiling by resurrecting the feeling
Hip-hop, it started out in the park
Are we lost in the dark? I think we maybe forgot.
But never mind that, we like to party
We don't start trouble and we don't bother nobody
'Cause Y is a letter with the long long tail
And I write these lyrics you can feel like brail
Hail, the most high, I post high
I used to swing low, now I let the crabs know that
My antimatter is shattering any ladder thats crawling with snakes
Make no mistake, we're not fake, wake up
I'm not one to repeat myself
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
Ooh, got stuck, ooh, FlyPaper
I don't care, I don't care
Who's that girl? She's FlyPaper
She don't care, she don't care
Try new supersonic Flypaper. It's catchy, and it's pop
Do it again, can he do it again?
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
All the people standing at the train station
Left, right, left, right, left, right
We don't talk to each other now
What an alien nation
Uptight, uptight, uptight
I hope one day some things can get better
I hope some way our hearts can change the weather
As we walk this yellow road and try to shake the load
In this 4-1-6 area code
It's another night in TV land
I say
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
Oh how I see your eyes run dry
Subliminal pro, I've got to go
Just so I can be the pawn in your chess game
the fame for checkmate,
I've got a new mind state
Plus I've got the power of the cat, rotate
I'm straight digging in my record crate
Lights in your party so they leave the hate
Time is a thief that leaves nothing behind
And I've got no grief or axe to grind in this fair city
I'm just a man who wants to understand
Who wants to know the plans, tell me the plans, tell me the plans
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
Do it again, do it again
Do it again, can we do it?
Yo, ok it seems at times that I'm under hypnosis
I suppose this city life is a process
I wrote this, like a million years ago
Tried to get out of the game a million tears ago
But I'm back, chillin', illin' for top billin'
Levitate to the ceiling by resurrecting the feeling
Hip-hop, it started out in the park
Are we lost in the dark? I think we maybe forgot.
But never mind that, we like to party
We don't start trouble and we don't bother nobody
'Cause Y is a letter with the long long tail
And I write these lyrics you can feel like brail
Hail, the most high, I post high
I used to swing low, now I let the crabs know that
My antimatter is shattering any ladder thats crawling with snakes
Make no mistake, we're not fake, wake up
But if it ain't broken don't fix it
I see you burning all that midnight oil
But I'm caught between a rock and a hard place
That's why I'm walking in the city with a hard face
Seems I'm afraid of being afraid
I don't care, I don't care
Who's that girl? She's FlyPaper
She don't care, she don't care
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Definatly based around living in Toronto... the area code gives it away. I live the jive/ regee feeling in this sound. highly Addictive:)
wow this song is really good.
In the 1st verse I think it explains how people don't connect much and says that maybe someday we can change for the better.
I'm doing an english project on this so if anybody has any ideas of what else it could be it would be great if you posted...
good song hate the intro
Just a few corrections? Lolxors at no one noticing.
Just so I can be the pound in your chest Game the fame for checkmate,
Just so I can be the pawn in your chess- Game, for fame, but checkmate.
This makes a tad more sense along with the checkmate, and I definetely here pawn/chess instead of pound/chest.
Make no mistake we not fate, wake up -> Make no mistake, we're not fake, wake up
Makes a tad more sense, and it rhymes along with the -ake phonetics. Just like Kevin loves to go along with phonetic-rhyming.
This song is obviously about living in Toronto, indeed, but in general it's about moving out, alienating from your parents, no longer talking to them, maybe even losing some 'hometown' friends.
The FlyPaper is probably a metaphor for everything and everyone trying to keep you near them, close to them, in some town where you can't grow. Or something like that.
That's why his city life is a process, he's out in the real world, growing and all. It seems he's afraid of being afraid of losing everyone. He's caught between a rock and a hard place: A rock IS hard. He feels trapped.
In the end, I think it's about trying to figure himself out. He know what he wants to say, but he doesn't know how to word it. This would also make a tad sense on the few sentences that are just implented to make the song rhyme. The may appear random, but are just a way of expressing themselves.
Mmm, in my head I know how I can 'translate' and 'relate' to the song, but writing it down seems a tad harder. Feel free to discuss anything I said. I'd love you too :).
I definetely hear. I don't 'here'. Typo :). I wish there was an edit button of some sort.
I really love this song!
but since endlish is not my mother tongue i´m not quite sure about the part in the end of the song when he sings:
Who's that girl? She's FlyPaper She don't care, she don't care
I mean you can´t translate it word by word,...right?
What does flypaper stand in this context for? That she is someone who gets the attention of the people (the pesky flys) and that she doesn´t care? `Cause she doesn´t mind? And that this is something positive?
Or maybe i´m totally wrong? I would appreciate any suggestions.
Y is a letter with a long long tale. Since birth yo.