Phantogram – Nightlife

General CommentTo me kinda sounds like this songs about a depressed/suicidal prostitute:

"so tell me how to do it slow/ i'm a maze" - kinda self explanatory
"make a pretty face and say i'm fine/ im okay/ only in the nighttime" - I guess you could interpret "only in the nighttime" in 2 ways, either she only needs to put on this front of happiness and say shes "okay in the nighttime" because thats when shes most depressed/ being used. The other way of interpretation is that shes only truly happy in the nighttime because when she can finally "say goodnight" and sleep is the only time she has to herself to enjoy her life.
"love is the only thing i ever needed" - also pretty self explanatory, even though she lives this life where sex is her means of living she still has never really experienced love, and thats all she really wants or needs.

Just my two cents on this amazing song :D

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  @davidicus
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  Yeah that's what I was thinking. Although not necessarily a prostitute. Just a an easy girl (possibly an emotional slut, wittingly or not) who wants some genuine love and affection.
  
  Poor girls... If only they didn't mind sharing a man. I can genuinely love them all!

  Flag cheesesteakon January 06, 2012  

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  Also, she rotates "is" and "was" on the last few lines regarding love. Mixing up the tense, so it goes:
  
  "Love is the only thing I ever needed, I ever needed
  
  Love was the only thing I ever needed
  
  Love is the only thing I ever needed, I ever needed "
  
  Not sure if that has any significance (i.e. she was suicidal and is now dead...or maybe she did find love?)

  Flag cheesesteakon January 06, 2012  

Lyric Correctioni think it's

tell me how we do away with love
i'm amazed

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  @skinsxchild
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  You're right. Their lyrics are up on their website.

  Flag SliverLineson June 18, 2012