Twice as Hard

My favorite song on El Pintor. It's just as gorgeous and lush and submersive as any of their best. Anyone who thinks Interpol has lost it hasn't heard this song. It's the perfect album closer.

I think he says, "I rely on fewer lines to let you in" which is one of the best on the record.

As for the meaning, I'll probably have to spend even more time with it. It sounds like a person taking inventory of his life and relationships. Hew looking back on his "creations" and "mistakes". The whole song sounds like an aria of sorts from a man who has found moving through life difficult. But the chorus sounds like a realization that the people with whom he is closest have had to endure the trials of knowing him far more than he'd known before.

Also, yeah, there's the signature sexual overtones in the chorus. Which, well, God bless Interpol for making even a lament sound sexy.

These lyrics are massively wrong, these are the correct ones;

There were days of no surprise on the wing When nobody cared but you Outright we tried to feel a salvation The proof of it was always you Boo

If these times should signify my mistakes Please give me power These are all of my creations Leaving me disavowed

Twice as hard Twice as hard I give it right back to you I give it right back to you Twice as hard

I relied on fewer lies to let you in Become my lover So with all of my relations One caves in on the other

Twice as hard Twice as hard I give it right back to you I give it right back to you Twice as hard

Oh those nights of many lives Following beautiful hours These are all of my creations Veering me now towards you

Twice as hard Twice as hard I give it right back to you I give it right back to you Twice as hard

Twice as hard Twice as hard Twice as hard

Twice as hard Twice as hard Twice as hard