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Radar Detector Lyrics
You and I buy star maps and drive my car around Los Angeles
You and I buy star maps and ding dong ditch a televangelist
It's only been a week
But I know that you are mine to keep
You are a radar detector
I drive 1,000 miles an hour
I won't go on and on
But you are always looking out for me
You and I go shopping and find exactly what we're looking for
You and I go shopping and fall asleep inside the mattress store.
We cruise the neighborhood
But it's not supposed to feel this good
You are a radar detector
When I'm driving around, you are a radar detector
You and I buy star maps and ding dong ditch a televangelist
But I know that you are mine to keep
I drive 1,000 miles an hour
I won't go on and on
But you are always looking out for me
You and I go shopping and fall asleep inside the mattress store.
But it's not supposed to feel this good
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a friend of mine recently showed this guy to me and I love it :D it's just one of those "we just kinda met, but we're really hitting it off and I really like you" kind of songs. anything with heavy bass synth and a nasally voice wins me over haha ;]
This guy's hair a frizzy representation of sex. But going on, I like the theme of finding a location, as if this new flame gives him direction. (Radar detector, star maps, driving, looking, finding stuff in a marketplace, aimlessly cruising around town...)
I totally understand this because it's the relationship i have with my wife. I'm a gemini, an air sign, and like many geminis I'm pretty flighty, erratic, all over the place at 1000 miles an hour. My wife, is a radar detector. She warns me when there's danger ahead or when I'm about to get in trouble (radar detectors detect police radar guns...).
"I won't go on and on" pretty much means he can't go on at his ridiculous pace. "you are always looking out for me" that's what my wife does. my radar detector.
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I LOVE THIS SONG. Why has no one said anything about their love for this song? So summertime bouncy wonderful. Really great. Adorable, really.
I agree :) I don't know if it really has any hugely significant meaning...it sounds just like two people having fun. At most she looks out for him if he starts to spin out of control or something, but yeah I can't wait for summer now! This song makes me want it that much more! Everything about it is so great.
Yeah, it sounds a bit like an "inside" joke.
I absolutely love this song. I think it's about, like many people have said, two people who have met and really like each other and they are just messing about doing the random things that newly formed couples do. Radar detector I think is a metaphor for someone whose perhaps just walked into a person's life just at the right time...he's the radar (driving around) and she has detected him. Did I mention that 'I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG'!!!
LOVE this song and the album. Best album since CC (2)
this whole album sounds the same.
but this song really got to me.
"We cruise the neighborhood But it's not supposed to feel this good"
story of my life.
The song is about her looking out for him. She's a radar detector, he drives 1,000 mph, and she's just looking out for him, kind of like slowing him down. They balance each other out. And all of the stuff about direction is just playing into that metaphor.
The song is about her looking out for him. She's a radar detector, he drives 1,000 mph, and she's just looking out for him, kind of like slowing him down. They balance each other out. And all of the stuff about direction is just playing into that metaphor.
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