Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

What drunkenrivers says sounds super interesting and raises the song's grade for sure. steve11494 I agree, is about one-night-stand lost loves! Norah sings the emotional part and interestingly this part is aware that this is a dream, a long summer feeling. She begins in her room: "Quiet night, you see the TVs glowing Quiet night, you hear the walls are awake"

Then moves to a party: "Me and you are getting out of the party crowd"

And finally to his place: "Can I see what's underneath your bed?"

She realises she's fallen in love, and tries to extend the moment, looking under the bed, stay more time with guy, maybe until the milkman's working or the café' awakes. She doesn't understand why she has to wake up from this great dream, why this awesome feeling can last longer. So in this metaphor the guy is waking her up, and again she asks why so much love in the dark and so much indifference ("hate") in the light, a contrast is brought up with Suart's voice. Stuart sing a different point of view, not the guy's point of view, but rather her point of view but from a zoomed-out perspective, perhaps more rational or colder.

There's another album with the same idea but not only on a single track but the whole concept of the album is a "Teen Dream", from Beach House. Another excellent song is Gotan Project's "Érase una vez", which basically says the same thing but in electrotango.

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Not just about the prolonging of a one night stand... it's far more heartbreaking than that. She has invented her lover completely.

She imagines the two of them out; she imagines she has gone home with him and coyly seduced him by asking about the contents of his bedroom.

But he's entirely just another dream, and having imagined the encounter, she imagines how it might end: he's shocked at her ugliness.

Which is kind of devastating, given it's HER dream. And devastating that this sort of dream has happened over and over, to the point where she's given her dreams nicknames and personalities.

That's her life. What a waste. What a song. Excuse my while I go off and have a tear.

I think "Travel south until your skin turns, woman" should be "Travel south until your skin turns warmer"

I don't know if this is right, or how it bears on the other lyrics, but I'm wondering if the title characters refer to some of Stuart's heroes? Possible Lou Reed, Jack Kerouac and John Lennon? Just a guess.

P.S. I'm a big B&S fan but I can't say I love this MOR track.

This song is about lost loves and one-night stands.

The protagonist invents a past for people they met at parties and had sex with, they wish they could have spent longer with these partners instead of parting in the morning.

One of the best songs on the new album! Great melody;

I like this verse:

"Cry at night, you see the tv's glowing"

i guess it's not "cry at night", but "quiet night"

This song is soooooooo good ♥

fixed!

"All the history of wars" should be "All the history of boys". Then the lines start to make sense.