Chromatics

These Streets Will Never Look The Same

1 Meaning

Add Yours

Q&A

These Streets Will Never Look The Same Lyrics

Spent my life inside this room
And disappeared some more each day
Spent my life inside this room
And disappeared some more each day

The screen stayed flashing in my mind (4x)

Spent my life inside this room
And disappeared some more each day
Spent my life inside this room
And disappeared some more each day

I couldn't run away from you
You kept me hanging on the line
I couldn't run away from you
You kept me hanging on the line

I get so lonely all the time
I try to find my way back home

These streets will never look the same
My broken heart erased your name

The screen stayed flashing in my mind (4x)

(---)

Spent my life inside this room
And disappeared some more each day

These streets will never look the same
My broken heart erased your name

The screen stayed flashing in my mind (4x)

Submitted by

birdsofparadise On May 10, 2012

Lyrics saved successfully! Thanks!

These lyrics are currently locked and can only be edited by moderators and administrators.

You must be logged in to edit lyrics.

Unable to save lyrics. Please try again.

Lyrics cannot contain links.

Lyric edit submitted successfully and is pending approval. Approvals usually take 24 hours.

Keep it true to the song

Fix what’s wrong, but don’t rewrite what the artist wrote. Stick to the official released version — album booklet, label site, verified lyric video, etc. If you’re guessing, pause and double-check.

Respect the structure

Songs have rhythm. Pages do too. Leave line breaks where they belong. Don’t smash things together or add extra empty space just for looks.

Punctuation counts (but vibe-editing doesn’t)

Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.

Don’t mix versions

If you’re editing the explicit version, keep it explicit. If it’s the clean version, keep it clean. No mashups.

Let the lyrics be lyrics

This isn’t the place for interpretations, memories, stories, or trivia — that’s what comments are for. Keep metadata, translations, and bracketed stage directions out unless they’re officially part of the song.

Edit lightly

If two lines are wrong… fix the two lines. No need to bulldoze the whole page. Think ‘surgical,’ not ‘remix.’

When in doubt, ask the crowd

Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.

BirdsOfParadise

Submitter

2012-05-10 10:40:48

1 Meaning

Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.

Sort by

by abrown512

12y ago

One of the best tracks off of Kill For Love, especially dig the segue from this to Broken Mirrors.

The meaning of the track itself is interesting because it juxtaposes the end of a relationship with a generalized solitude, with a hint of the whole "technology makes you asocial" malarkey that a bunch of bands are using nowadays (St. Vincent, Arcade Fire), but with less of the heavy-handedness and much more resignation: whereas Arcade Fire believes they have a musical way out of the issues they talk about, Chromatics and Johnny Jewel succumb to the dilation of time and streaks of synth that infect their post-punk, referring to synthpop as a cultural event rather than as a musical tradition.

Users:

Reply · 0 Share

Questions and Answers

Ask specific questions and get answers to unlock more indepth meanings & facts.