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Unemployed Boyfriend Lyrics
Hi, this is Peggy. Leave me a nice message or I'll kill ya.
Hey
Peggy, it's me. You are never going to believe what happened to me today. I'm sittin' at the unemployment office, waitin' on my loser of a caseworker, in one of those nasty chairs, when from out of nowhere, this total stranger walks right up to me, sits down, then leans over and says something like, ëThis is gonna sound a little obsessive.
This is gonna sound a little obsessive
This is gonna sound a little bit strange
I have one thing to say
Before I turn and I walk away
This is gonna sound a little impulsive
This is gonna sound a little insane
I know you don't know me yet
But you and I, we will be together someday
Someday
I know, I know, I sound like I'm on drugs
Listen to me when I say
That ever since when I first saw you
Sittin' on your car outside
You asked for a cigarette
I couldn't stop starin' at your eyes
Ever since when I first saw you
Looking bored in that plastic chair
With the lights of the office around you
Those blond streaks, they look so pretty in your black hair
You look cool and alternative with that disaffected stare
Yeah you want people to think that you just don't care
Hey you can be with me
Yeah 'cause I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're perfect
Who will always make you come
Hey you can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe he said that to me? To me, of all people! I can't even remember the last time a guy took me out on a date and actually paid for it!
This is gonna sound a little bit out there
This is gonna sound a little insane
I keep having the same dream
You will be the mother of my children someday
Someday I heard you sleep with that obnoxious guy
I know he is in that famous band
You look so sad when you are with him
Yes I never see him reach to hold your hand
Yeah you can be with me
Yes I will treat you like a queen
I will go to all those chick flick movies
That I really don't want to see
Yeah you can be with me
No I will never let you down
I will never make out with your girlfriend
When I know you're not around
Yes you can be with me
Yeah I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're special
I will always make you come
You can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe this? I mean, can this be for real?
No!
Then he takes my hand, writes down his number, and just walks away.
Whoa!
I mean, wow. But you know, the weird thing is, he's actually kind of cute, in a really intense way.
Kinda like Perry Farrell, you know. Intense, but sensitive. Anyway, I told my bitchy sister about it, and she just laughed at me. I told her I'm really excited about this! That I have a really good feeling about this guy! I told her, ëThis could be the guy.' I'm like...
Peggy, it's me. You are never going to believe what happened to me today. I'm sittin' at the unemployment office, waitin' on my loser of a caseworker, in one of those nasty chairs, when from out of nowhere, this total stranger walks right up to me, sits down, then leans over and says something like, ëThis is gonna sound a little obsessive.
This is gonna sound a little obsessive
This is gonna sound a little bit strange
I have one thing to say
Before I turn and I walk away
This is gonna sound a little insane
I know you don't know me yet
But you and I, we will be together someday
Someday
Listen to me when I say
That ever since when I first saw you
Sittin' on your car outside
You asked for a cigarette
I couldn't stop starin' at your eyes
Ever since when I first saw you
Looking bored in that plastic chair
With the lights of the office around you
Those blond streaks, they look so pretty in your black hair
You look cool and alternative with that disaffected stare
Yeah you want people to think that you just don't care
Hey you can be with me
Yeah 'cause I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're perfect
Who will always make you come
Hey you can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
This is gonna sound a little insane
I keep having the same dream
You will be the mother of my children someday
Someday I heard you sleep with that obnoxious guy
I know he is in that famous band
You look so sad when you are with him
Yes I never see him reach to hold your hand
Yeah you can be with me
Yes I will treat you like a queen
I will go to all those chick flick movies
That I really don't want to see
Yeah you can be with me
No I will never let you down
I will never make out with your girlfriend
When I know you're not around
Yeah I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're special
I will always make you come
You can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe this? I mean, can this be for real?
Then he takes my hand, writes down his number, and just walks away.
I mean, wow. But you know, the weird thing is, he's actually kind of cute, in a really intense way.
Kinda like Perry Farrell, you know. Intense, but sensitive. Anyway, I told my bitchy sister about it, and she just laughed at me. I told her I'm really excited about this! That I have a really good feeling about this guy! I told her, ëThis could be the guy.' I'm like...
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I am surprised nobody got it.
It is about the guy who hit on his wife and eventually stole her away from Art.
Art is the guy in the gamous band.
The song is from the perverse perspective of the guy hitting on his wife.
I love this song!!!!!!!!! its soo the best.
Ummm... does anyone know who the girl is at the beginning and end of this song ?? She sounds just like the girl at the beginning of "seperation" by colorfinger (Art's Band before everclear). Oh, and yeah this is of of course, a great song. (but really, aren't they all?)
This song is so awesome, Attention guys!! This is what girls want! But if u wanna pull it off u gotta be as awesome as Art!! but really, this is definetly how love at first sight should be, if i guy did that to me id probably drop dead! :)
This song is about a girl Art wish he had talked to once when he walked into an unemployment office. But personally I think he was looking at a picture of Craig when he wrote it. That part where he says "Those blonde streaks in your black hair." or the part "you asked me for a cigarette"
Craig, it was "Those blonde steaks look so pretty in your black hair" so i doubt it unless he is gay
If i did that to some girl in the job centre she would call the security.
One of those stories that only work in Hollywood or, in this case, pop music.
Good for a daydream though. We've all thought about stuff like that.
Um first off, this is NOT what girls want.
Penny, I would just love to see a bum rush up to you and your friends while you are walking past a liquor store telling you that he is going to impregnate you and you are going to be the father of his child. If you had mace you wouldn't hesitate to use it and if you say otherwise your just lying.
With that being said... :)
It's about one of two things... either it's literal and it's about a girl Art met outside of an unemployment office in the past that he wishes he would have had the confidence to ask out...
Or...
The less literal intrepertation. It's about the guy that Art wishes he was in his own marriage. Letting her pick the movies, not being that "obnoxious guy in the famous band" that his wife sleeps with. Being able to always be there for his little girl and wife, being able to be there to hold her hand.
I don't know, I think that is more what the song is about, but of course there are always dozens of ways to look into songs like this.
lol, yeah i agree this literally wouldn't be what a girl wants, that'd be creepy.. but like the song and the feelings and the way he feels about the girl is what a girl wants.
This song is sweet. And I love it.
this song is my absolute favorite everclear song ever! I think art is talking about how love doesn't always have to and often doesn't make sense,you CAN love someone completely irrationally without knowing anything about them. I think it's also about how people are often too AFRAID TO TAKE CHANCES!