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Stupid in the Dark Lyrics
The police showed me a photo
You look so unlikeable
I say I'm not sure it is you
But I wish I said it was you
You taught me a lesson
People are stupid in the dark
People are useless in the moonlight
People are meant to be loved
Loved without thought, loved without thought, oh
In the moonlight
Pull out the gun, give me your money
Give me your phone, you can keep your ID
The detectives encourage as I punch you in the tummy
Once we felt sorry for you people
But not that sorry
You taught me a lesson
People are stupid in the dark
People are useless in the moonlight
People are meant to be loved
Loved without thought, loved without thought, oh
In the moonlight
You look so unlikeable
I say I'm not sure it is you
But I wish I said it was you
You taught me a lesson
People are stupid in the dark
People are useless in the moonlight
People are meant to be loved
Loved without thought, loved without thought, oh
In the moonlight
Pull out the gun, give me your money
Give me your phone, you can keep your ID
The detectives encourage as I punch you in the tummy
Once we felt sorry for you people
But not that sorry
You taught me a lesson
People are stupid in the dark
People are useless in the moonlight
People are meant to be loved
Loved without thought, loved without thought, oh
In the moonlight
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I'm pretty sure the first verse goes like this:
Police showed me your photo You look so unlikeable I said, I'm not sure it's you But I wish I said it was you.
This is about killing someone, possibly a recent acquaintance, and about helplessness of people, which are easily loved and killed ("in the dark").
I don't think it's really about killing at all. It's about the implication of violence. Jamie Stewart has already revealed in interviews that the song and the subsequent album was inspired by a life event; when Stewart was recently mugged at night, and he feared for his life. It's a pretty literal expression of the moment he genuinely thought he may be killed, and the resulting anger that followed.
I don't think it's really about killing at all. It's about the implication of violence. Jamie Stewart has already revealed in interviews that the song and the subsequent album was inspired by a life event; when Stewart was recently mugged at night, and he feared for his life. It's a pretty literal expression of the moment he genuinely thought he may be killed, and the resulting anger that followed.
The best part about this music, and the entire album as a whole, is that it evolves into issues of racialized sex, criminality and fear.. Which are topics that Xiu Xiu...
The best part about this music, and the entire album as a whole, is that it evolves into issues of racialized sex, criminality and fear.. Which are topics that Xiu Xiu has brushed upon in the past, but from the angle of apprehensive desiring darkly complex emotions. This album sees a growth in which that desire is rationalized as the primal, raw, and animalistic behaviors that they are.
Rather than wrestling with the same issues that they had in the past, this one criminal event had given the notion of death an invasive feeling, when it had been in the past, only romanticized.
It's about Jamie Stewart's experience being mugged and his revenge fantasy.