You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?
Oh, the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seemed
My love, when you dream them up
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now, when she tells she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said, she wasn't going, but she went, still
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
Was it a Mecca Dauber or a betting pencil?
Oh, the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seemed
My love, when you dream them up
Oh, Flo, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Oh oh
You're falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
Just soundin' it out
But you're not coming back again
You're falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You were just soundin' it out
But you're not coming back again
You used to get it in your fishnets (falling about)
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness (you took a left off Last Laugh Lane)
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole (were sounding it out)
Is everything as pretty as the past though?
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco (you're not coming back again)
Remember when he used to be a rascal? Oh
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?
Oh, the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seemed
My love, when you dream them up
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now, when she tells she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said, she wasn't going, but she went, still
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
Was it a Mecca Dauber or a betting pencil?
Oh, the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seemed
My love, when you dream them up
Oh, Flo, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Oh oh
You're falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
Just soundin' it out
But you're not coming back again
You're falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You were just soundin' it out
But you're not coming back again
You used to get it in your fishnets (falling about)
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness (you took a left off Last Laugh Lane)
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole (were sounding it out)
Is everything as pretty as the past though?
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco (you're not coming back again)
Remember when he used to be a rascal? Oh
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Fluorescent Adolescent Lyrics as written by Alex Turner Johanna Bennett
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You used to get it in your fishnets
(Which is sexy)
Now you only get it in your night dress
(Typical and boring)
Discarded the naughty nights with niceness
(Less sex more jsut being nice, perhaps having tea with the neighbours or something shit like that.)
Landed in a very common crisis
(This happens to most relationships)
Everything's in order in a black hole
(Relationship is comapred to a black hole its in order but its lifeless and dull and sucks everything that ever was into it)
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
(It was better in the past)
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
(Looking for more kicks in life than the same old boring relationship like adding more tabasco to the bloody mary)
Remember when he used to be a rascal?
(thats what he used to be like)
Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
(This is the woman looking back on the man and waht he used to be like this is apprent because of the last line of the first verse which tells the woman to remember.)
Is just a memory and those dreams
Not as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up...
(What he used to be like is just a memory and she dreams that he'll be the same again there not that daft but shes just making them up.)
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
(Trying to spice things up)
Remember when the boys were all electric?
(When she used to get all the boys)
Now when she tells she's gonna get it
(she thinks hses going to get sex)
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget i
(sarcastic comment by the narrator she dosent want to forget it she wants to live it)
Clinging to not getting sentimental
(she dosent want to cling on for someone, settle down, she wants to relive the hayday when she was a 'fluroscent adolescent'.)
Said she wasn't going but she went still
(Perhaps she goes to cheat on her fella?)
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
(Everything in this relationship is just too comfy she wants excitement)
Was it a megadobber or a betting pencil?
(Ha don't know what this is about. But the first thing i thought of was that it was some sort of sex game or something and i dont know here the megadobebr or the betting pencil are going. Maybe shes comparing the size of her partners dick to this new fellas. No idea)
Falling about
(Shes drunk)
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
(Turns down the road and laughs. She's ahd the last laugh at her boring fella)
You just sounded it out
(She just got it all out of her by having a bit of excitment with another guy not leading the boring drab lifestyle)
You're not coming back again.
(However she's not doing again... she dosen't need to shes had her fun its back to her normal life.)
(When she used to get all the boys)
he's talking about a vibrator.
(Ha don't know what this is about. But the first thing i thought of was that it was some sort of sex game or something and i dont know here the megadobebr or the betting pencil are going. Maybe shes comparing the size of her partners dick to this new fellas. No idea)
mecca daubber or a betting pencil.
it's a sexual reference to a mans penis. a meccadobber is a marker used to mark spots in bingo.
betting pencil = a marker used in bingo, thicker than the usual marker used for writing.
ERGO. well, i think it's obvious enough
acually works in that as it is suppose to be when she was a virgin useing a vibrator and was excited for sex but now doesn't care about or want to remember the sex she has now.
(She think he's gonna make her do sex but he's saying just forget it, I'm not having sex)
(She think he's gonna make her do sex but he's saying just forget it, I'm not having sex)
Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil?
Mecca is a change of bingo halls in the UK. The dobber is a large thick pen used to mark the bingo cards.
A betting pencil is a small thin little pencil, think Ikea pencil, used in horse betting shops.
Referencing penis size
also i maybe didn't see it when reading but there's that part... "when you dreamed them up oh flo, where did you go(×3), o-oh"
im guessing meaning the woman is also dealing with menopause in her older years therefore losing her period. Just a guess. I think that's what he is saying.
she is remembering all her one night stands and how boys used to fall at her feet 'Remember when he used to be a rascal?' She wishes she was still like that, and was a bit naughty 'Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle/
Was it a mega-dobber or a betting pencil?'
Shes recently had sex with a man, maybe a male prostitute (slag is the english version for slut, usually used for girls but can be for boys too)
Oh, that boy's a slag, the best you ever had (its the best she's had in ages, with the male prositute)
The best you ever had is just a memory (she remembers being younger, the best of her life is gone)
that's what i've always thought!
Megadobber = mecca dauber
But, regardless, brilliant lyrics. The entire album is great.
"you used to get it in your fishnets
now you only get it in your nightdress..."
fishnet resembles being young and now your older you go out to clubs and parties and where a nightdress.
"Nothing seems as the past though" to being young and looking back at the good times
"Remember when he used to a rascal?" remember him being Juvenile