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I have searched for you
In the darkness of a dozen dingy dance halls
In countless queues in cafes in the suburbs
In the bed clothes of a thousand stranger's bedrooms
And I have yearned for you
In the airless hubs of international airports
In the hollow hell of many hundred hotels
In the solitary stillness of the early hours
I still do
Sometimes the things you need
Are right back where you started from
So fuck you Hollywood
For raising us on dreams of happy endings
In postcards of the prom kings and the prom queens
For teaching us that love was free and easy
Fuck you Mötley Crüe
For telling tales that skimp on all the dark sides
For teasing us with access and with excess
For bringing out the lowest drive in everyone
Oh fuck you
Sometimes the things you need
Are right back where you started from
Sometimes the things you need
They hang around a little while
Good and gone
If I could just have a second try
To take the second call you made that night
To find myself an airport and a credit card
Find a flight or something
To head back to the start
Sometimes the things I need
Are right back where I started from
Sometimes the things I need
They hang around a little while
Good and gone
They're good and gone.
In the darkness of a dozen dingy dance halls
In countless queues in cafes in the suburbs
In the bed clothes of a thousand stranger's bedrooms
In the airless hubs of international airports
In the hollow hell of many hundred hotels
In the solitary stillness of the early hours
Are right back where you started from
For raising us on dreams of happy endings
In postcards of the prom kings and the prom queens
For teaching us that love was free and easy
For telling tales that skimp on all the dark sides
For teasing us with access and with excess
For bringing out the lowest drive in everyone
Oh fuck you
Are right back where you started from
Sometimes the things you need
They hang around a little while
Good and gone
To take the second call you made that night
To find myself an airport and a credit card
Find a flight or something
To head back to the start
Are right back where I started from
Sometimes the things I need
They hang around a little while
Good and gone
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i love the lines: "So fuck you Hollywood For raising us on dreams of happy endings In postcards of the prom kings and the prom queens For teaching us that love was free and easy"
so. very. accurate.
It's interesting (to me, at least) that he revisits some of these themes - perhaps even answers this song - in "There She Is" (Be More Kind).
I have a feeling that, and just a feeling as I haven’t had the time to give it a proper breakdown, that considering Frank’s affinity with folklore, literature and all things history, that there may be a hint of influence from the story of The Pedlar of Swaffham in this song. I don’t think this is where the origin of the tale begins either but the most recent rendition of this tale is through the 1988 novel The Alchemist if you’re interested. This story loosely goes: A Pedlar from Swaffham, Norfolk has a recurrent dream where he is told that he will find great wealth at London Bridge, he travels to the bridge and spends three unfruitful days in search of it until a shopkeeper confronts him out of curiosity. The pedlar explains and the shopkeeper replies, “why I have had a similar dream of a great treasure buried in the garden of a pedlar’s house but I know this is just a dream and I am wiser than you to just take off on a whim in search of it”. Naturally the Pedlar returns home, digs to find the riches and the rest is history…
“Sometimes the things you need are right back where you started from…”
I’ve unjustly paraphrased the tale but it’s much too intricate too fully expand upon in here. And likely not too tightly tied back to the lyrics within this song but moreso in it’s premise and metaphor.
It’s a powerful piece, rich with allegory just like the story of the fisher king is which is also worth looking into.
[Edit: Spelling mistake]