In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Spent twenty-four hours
I need more hours with you
You spent the weekend
Getting even, ooh-ooh
We spent the late nights
Making things right, between us
But now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwoods baby
And play me close
'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Girls like you
Love fun and yeah, me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you
I spent last night
On the last flight to you
Took a whole day up
Trying to get way up, ooh-ooh
We spent the daylight
Trying to make things right between us (oh, oh)
And now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwoods baby
And play me close
Yeah, 'cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Girls like you
Love fun and yeah, me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
I need a girl like you
Maybe it's 6:45
Maybe I'm barely alive
Maybe you've taken my shit for the last time, yeah
Maybe I know that I'm drunk
Maybe I know you're the one
Maybe I'm thinking it's better if you drive
Oh, 'cause girls like you
Run 'round with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah
(You, yeah)
(You, yeah)
'Cause girls like you (girls like you)
Run 'round with guys like me
'Til sundown (sundown), when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah (oh-oh)
Girls like you
Love fun, yeah me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you
I need more hours with you
You spent the weekend
Getting even, ooh-ooh
We spent the late nights
Making things right, between us
But now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwoods baby
And play me close
'Cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Girls like you
Love fun and yeah, me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you
I spent last night
On the last flight to you
Took a whole day up
Trying to get way up, ooh-ooh
We spent the daylight
Trying to make things right between us (oh, oh)
And now it's all good baby
Roll that Backwoods baby
And play me close
Yeah, 'cause girls like you
Run around with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Girls like you
Love fun and yeah, me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah-yeah
I need a girl like you
Maybe it's 6:45
Maybe I'm barely alive
Maybe you've taken my shit for the last time, yeah
Maybe I know that I'm drunk
Maybe I know you're the one
Maybe I'm thinking it's better if you drive
Oh, 'cause girls like you
Run 'round with guys like me
'Til sundown, when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah
(You, yeah)
(You, yeah)
'Cause girls like you (girls like you)
Run 'round with guys like me
'Til sundown (sundown), when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah (oh-oh)
Girls like you
Love fun, yeah me too
What I want when I come through
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you, yeah yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need a girl like you
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by DanMercury, dafina1705
Girls Like You Lyrics as written by Brittany Talia Hazzard Adam Noah Levine
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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There are two things (in particular!) about Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” video that make my heart sing -- as a staunch feminist, I obviously love the fact that this video features so many amazing women; as someone who has always been a fan of variety in my media, I thoroughly enjoyed watching a video with so much of it! The video features Adam Levine standing on a platform alone singing into a microphone. Doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Well, as he dives into the first chorus, as the camera is rotating around him, different women begin appearing behind him at every pass.
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What better way to make a mockery of the phrase “girls like you” -- Maroon 5 (along with an army of talented and confident women) is here to tell you that no two women are the same and that trying to separate them down into different groups only to dismiss them is a fallacy. Plus, Ellen Degeneres. I mean, c’mon.
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“we spent the daylight tryna make things right between us”\n\ni guess the story of the previous maroon 5 song “Daylight” had a happy ending.